# Licensing

Summary of which licence covers what. The legal texts are in `LICENSE` (code)
and `LICENSE-DATA.txt` (data). This note is not itself a licence, and it is not
legal advice.

## Code: MIT

The application source code, build scripts, tests and configuration
(`src/`, `scripts/`, `tests/`, and the files in the repository root) are
licensed under the MIT licence in `LICENSE`. Copyright holder: futurelightcone.

Bundled runtime dependencies keep their own licences. They are listed in
`THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md`.

## Selekoa's own data and text: CC BY 4.0

Selekoa's own records and the text written for Selekoa are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
(<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>, legal code in
`LICENSE-DATA.txt`). This covers:

- the records in `data/` and the dataset releases in `release/`: claims,
  qualifications, entity descriptions, source records as compiled, collection
  definitions and the identifiers;
- the text written for Selekoa: reading pages, the About & method page,
  exported research-starter prose, and the documents in `docs/`.

Credit: "Selekoa (futurelightcone)", the dataset release version or access
date, and a link to this licence. Cite a record by its ID and release version,
as the About & method page describes.

## Excluded: third-party material

The CC BY 4.0 licence does not cover, and Selekoa does not license:

- **Quoted source passages.** Verbatim passages are kept in the evidence
  `quote` field. They are third-party text and remain under their owners'
  rights.
- **Quotations inside Selekoa text.** Words inside quotation marks in any
  Selekoa text field are quoted from the source the record names. The same
  applies to quotations in exported starters.
- **Source documents.** Selekoa links to sources and does not redistribute
  them.
- **Names, marks and logos** of the organisations and people it describes.

Bibliographic details (names, titles, dates and URLs that identify a work) are
facts that locate a source. Selekoa claims no rights in them beyond its own
compilation and the licence above.

The dataset format lists the text class of every field
(`docs/dataset-format.md`); the manifest of each release repeats it.

## Dataset releases made before the licence

Releases are immutable. Releases written before these licence files existed
state in their own `README.md` and `manifest.json` that no licence was granted.
Those files are unchanged. The records and Selekoa text in such a release are
offered under the same CC BY 4.0 terms and the same exclusions as the current
data, and where an older release file and this document differ on licensing,
this document governs. The downloadable archive of each release includes this
note and `LICENSE-DATA.txt`.

## Corrections and takedown

A rights owner, or a person named in a record, can ask for a correction or
removal. The contact address is published on the About & method page once the
site is public.