Credits

SHMACS was built by students for students. The goal was to create something that would help students navigate course registration and leave behind a lasting impact on the community.

SHMACS is not open source

SHMACS is a private project, not an open-source fork. All new work added on top of QuACS — the UI revamp, catalog browser, clubs/news/events tabs, campus map, and everything else unique to SHMACS — is © the SHMACS authors. All rights reserved. Please don't clone, re-host, or redistribute SHMACS or its new code. The MIT attribution below applies only to the original QuACS portions we started from.

Open-source attribution

Portions of SHMACS are derived from QuACS (the Questionably Accurate Course Scheduler), an open-source course-scheduling project for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. QuACS is licensed under the MIT License, reproduced in full below:

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Questionably Accurate Course Scheduler

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