Hecate is an Entity System framework for games, written in C++, to manage entities in a game world, and is heavily based upon Artemis Entity System Framework. Artemis (thus Hecate) is inspired by "Entity Systems are the Future of MMORPG" articles by Adam Martin on t-machine.org. Ideas were also borrowed from Ted Brown who implemented a simple high-performance Entity System in Processing.
Hecate, in Greek mythology, is the cousin of Artemis. Thus, I feel it's a fitting name for a C++ version of a Java framework.
Hecate is considered experimental and unmaintained. Use in your projects at your own risk.
Being based upon and using logic from Artemis, they share the same license. The Artemis & Hecate projects are licensed under the Simplified BSD License. Original Artemis license text is as follows (also in file LICENSE.artemis):
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