# Licensing and attribution

Copyright © Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM).

The `bam-masterdata` repository contains two separately licensed components:

**Software**

The Python software, utilities and associated code are distributed under the MIT License. See `LICENSE`.

**Scientific datamodel**

The metadata definitions, object types, property types and controlled vocabularies located in `bam_masterdata/datamodel/` are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). See `LICENSE.datamodel`.

**Contributors**

The software citation authors are documented in `CITATION.cff`. Contributions to the development and maintenance of the software and scientific datamodel are also documented in the repository's Git history.

Historical contributors to the BAM masterdata model include:

Angela Ariza de Schellenberger, Ingo Bressler, Rukeia El-Athman, Çağtay Fabry, Tobias Fritsch, Ralf Herrmann, Zoltán Konthur, Julius Kruse, Pavlina Kruzikova, Tarakeshwar Lakshmipathy, Julien Lecompagnon, Jan Lisec, José M. Pizarro, Mathias Röllig, and Bastian Rühle.

This acknowledgement does not necessarily represent an exhaustive list of contributors.

The original copyright notices and attribution requirements applicable to the respective components remain in effect.
