TalkTrace AI base
Copyright 2024-2026 Jami Schorling, Dennis Hauk, Simon Filler

This product includes software originally developed by Jami Schorling and
Dennis Hauk at the Chair for Research on Teaching and Learning in Civic
Education, Leipzig University, as TalkTrace AI
(https://github.com/talktrace-ai/talktrace-ai).

The base distribution is maintained by Simon Filler at TU Dortmund University
(https://idif.sowi.tu-dortmund.de/institut/) and is a reduced, AGPL-3.0
licensed sibling of an actively developed internal research fork.

Original authors:
  - Jami Schorling   (ORCID: 0009-0005-9007-2896)
  - Dennis Hauk      (ORCID: 0000-0002-5779-2876)

Maintainer of the base distribution:
  - Simon Filler     (ORCID: 0009-0008-8736-8831)


Licensing history
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The upstream repository (talktrace-ai/talktrace-ai) carries a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) notice. The base
distribution is released under the GNU Affero General Public License,
Version 3.0 (AGPL-3.0), with the explicit consent of the original authors
Jami Schorling and Dennis Hauk to relicense the derived work under a
different OSI-approved license.

Consent was given on 2026-05-26.

(Maintainer: keep the underlying written consent — email, signed message,
or equivalent — on file with the project records in case the licensing
chain is ever questioned.)
