Citing and license

Citing Rekkefly

If you use Rekkefly in published research, please cite it. The repository’s CITATION.cff is read by GitHub (Cite this repository), Zotero and other tools:

Kaushik, P. K. Rekkefly: the new Kinefly. Real-time wing tracking for tethered
insects (version 0.6.2). https://github.com/pvnkmrksk/rekkefly

@software{rekkefly,
  author  = {Kaushik, Pavan Kumar},
  title   = {Rekkefly: the new Kinefly. Real-time wing tracking for tethered insects},
  version = {0.6.2},
  url     = {https://github.com/pvnkmrksk/rekkefly},
  license = {MIT}
}

Please also cite the version you used (rekkefly --version), and describe the detector (wing_blur or edge) and the marker placement in your methods. As Rekkefly builds on Kinefly’s method, consider citing Kinefly too.

License

Rekkefly is free software under the MIT License: use, copy, modify and distribute it for any purpose, including commercial use, keeping the copyright notice.

The packages include the licenses of every dependency (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt). The website uses the Inter typeface under the SIL Open Font License.

Acknowledgements

Rekkefly exists because of Kinefly, by Steve Safarik and colleagues, which defined the method and conventions it keeps, and Kinefly Docker, which kept Kinefly running and defined the ZMQ message.