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Licence

Apache License 2.0

AIQT Guardrails is published under the Apache License 2.0, except vendored third-party material, which remains under its own terms. The licence text is the authority; this page summarizes it.

The licence

The licence covers the pack's own content and code, including its crosswalk mappings. Read the licence file (opens in a new tab) in the repository, or the canonical licence text (opens in a new tab).

Parts

Parts under a different licence

  • CommonMark specification examples 0.31.2, a test fixture vendored unchanged: CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence text (opens in a new tab)).
  • Marko 2.2.4, a CommonMark parser vendored unchanged: MIT (licence text (opens in a new tab)).
  • Shared site template (baseline package) 1.7.0, a pinned copy of the site template's runtime and licence files: CC0 1.0 Universal, except the fonts and marks named below (licence text (opens in a new tab)).
    • The 4 fonts (Newsreader, Public Sans, JetBrains Mono, Dancing Script) are licensed by their authors under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; each family's licence file is copied beside the fonts.
    • The GitHub Invertocat, LinkedIn [in] bug and ORCID iD marks are trademarks of their owners, used under their owners' terms as recorded in marks/NOTICE.md, and are not part of the CC0 grant.
  • Framework identifiers and titles in the crosswalk mappings stay under each publisher's terms. CSA uses a proprietary reference licence, and ISO/IEC a proprietary one. MITRE ATLAS is under the Apache License 2.0, and CWE under the CWE Terms of Use. NIST's works are in the public domain. OWASP uses CC BY-SA 4.0, with the MCP Top 10 under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (NOTICE (opens in a new tab)).

In plain language

What you may do

Each contributor grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright licence to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the work, in source or object form (section 2).

Each contributor also grants you a patent licence to make, use, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the work (section 3). It covers only the patent claims of that contributor that their contribution, alone or combined with the work, necessarily infringes.

You may reproduce and distribute copies, with or without changes, under the conditions of section 4:

  • give every recipient a copy of the licence (4(a));
  • make modified files carry prominent notices stating that you changed them (4(b));
  • keep all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the source form, other than notices that do not pertain to your derivative work (4(c));
  • where the work includes a NOTICE file, include a readable copy of its attribution notices, other than those that do not pertain to your derivative work, in a NOTICE file, in the source or documentation, or in a display where third-party notices normally appear (4(d)).

You may add your own copyright statement and different licence terms for your own changes, provided that your use of the work otherwise meets the licence (section 4).

A contribution you submit for inclusion is under the same licence, unless you explicitly state otherwise (section 5).

Key limits: the patent licence ends for you on the date you file patent litigation claiming that the work infringes a patent (section 3). The licence grants no trademark rights beyond reasonable and customary use in describing the work's origin and reproducing the NOTICE file (section 6).

Unless applicable law requires otherwise or it is agreed in writing, the work is provided as is, without warranties or conditions of any kind (section 7). With the same exceptions, contributors are not liable for damages arising from its use (section 8).

You may offer support, a warranty or other liability to others, and charge a fee for it (section 9). If you do, you act on your own behalf and must indemnify each contributor for it.

AIQT and AIQT Guardrails are trademarks of Jeff Posluns (registration pending), as the NOTICE file states.

The licence text governs; this is a summary, not legal advice.

Note

Jeff Posluns prefers to publish openly and releases each project under the licence that best fits it: open source licences for software, and public domain or Creative Commons licences for documentation and content.