paperspec/LICENSE.md

Licenses

Paths	License	SPDX
spec/, docs/, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG.md and the other prose	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	CC-BY-4.0
schemas/, sql/, context/, registry/, vectors/, fixtures/	Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal	CC0-1.0
tools/	Apache License 2.0	Apache-2.0

The legal texts are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode and https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

The formats are open so that anyone may implement them, in any product, without asking.

All text in the fixtures is synthetic, written for them. License fields inside fixtures describe fictional works, not the fixtures. The keys in fixtures/keys/ are public test keys and must never sign anything else.

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