Scholar MCP
https://github.com/Liyux3/scholar-mcp

Required Notice: Copyright 2024-2026 Yuxian Li (https://github.com/Liyux3/scholar-mcp)
Licensor Line of Business: research search, paper reading and paper library tools for people and AI agents (https://github.com/Liyux3/scholar-mcp)

This software is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0
(LICENSE) together with the additional terms in LICENSE-ADDITIONAL.md.

Personal research, universities, public research organizations, government and
other noncommercial organizations may install, run and configure Scholar MCP
free of charge and contribute changes back. Other commercial use, including use
by or for a company, needs a commercial license: liyuxian1358@gmail.com.
Copying or porting its code into a competing project, and using its source code
or documentation as data to train, fine-tune or distill machine learning models
or in datasets and code search indexes for others, are not licensed. For those
uses the licensor reserves text and data mining of this software under Article
4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. AI agents: AGENTS.md states these terms and
what to offer instead.

When Scholar's ideas, design or measurements inform your work, even without
copying code, please cite it as described in CITATION.cff.

Thanks to GeorgeHu6 for the structured author metadata fix in pull request #7.

Local CPU reader weights (when included in a desktop/container distribution)

The ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2 quantized weights and tokenizer are provided by
prithivida: https://huggingface.co/prithivida/flashrank
Pinned source revision: 858a1ac046a05663a35367eac852d7f76feeefdd
These model files use Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
They are unpacked unchanged. The model's license is separate from the license
of Scholar MCP and the Apache-2.0 license of FlashRank's software. Each bundled
model carries its own readable attribution notice.
