AI Evidence Manifest
Copyright 2026 Dominion Labs, Inc.

This repository is licensed in two parts, on purpose.

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The specification is free for anyone to implement.        Apache-2.0
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  SPEC.md
  schema/
  shared/patterns.json
  examples/

A convention only has value if anyone can implement it without asking
permission. These files carry the Apache License 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE-2.0),
including its patent grant. You may build your own generator, validator or
consumer for /ai.json, in any language, for any purpose, commercial or not,
and you owe us nothing.

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The tooling is source-available.                          Elastic License 2.0
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  reference-implementation/
  validator/
  python/
  tools/
  deploy/

The `ai-evidence` command-line tool and libraries carry the Elastic License
2.0 (LICENSE). In short: you may read, use, modify and redistribute them
freely, including inside your own company and inside commercial products.
You may not provide them to third parties as a hosted or managed service,
and you may not remove or circumvent licence-key functionality.

Note that the Elastic License 2.0 is source-available, not an OSI-approved
open source licence. Some organisations have procurement rules that treat
those differently, and Linux distributions generally will not package it.

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If the two-part split is ever ambiguous for a file, the specification licence
governs anything required to implement the format, and the tooling licence
governs everything else.

For a licence beyond these terms, contact info@dmnlabs.org.
