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enclawed-oss — copyright and license notice

This directory (enclawed-oss/) is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE). It bundles two layers of copyright:

1. Upstream OpenClaw

The base of this directory is a hard fork of OpenClaw, copyright (c) 2025 Peter Steinberger, licensed under MIT. Per the MIT terms, that upstream copyright notice and license text are preserved in LICENSE and must remain in any redistribution.

2. enclawed-oss additions

The framework, audit log, classification scheme, signing toolkit, human-in-the-loop controller, transaction buffer, prompt shield, egress guard, and accompanying test suite, paper, and CI workflows are copyright (c) 2026 Enclawed LLC and are also released under the MIT License.

The MIT additions are compatible with the upstream MIT license; no GPL, AGPL, or other copyleft code is incorporated into enclawed-oss/.

The "enclawed" name applies to the fork; the upstream project is "OpenClaw" and references to OpenClaw above are deliberate attribution to the original work.

What this notice does NOT cover

The closed-source extensions in the sibling directory ../enclawed-enclaved/ are governed by a SEPARATE proprietary license; see ../enclawed-enclaved/LICENSE. Importing MIT-licensed code from enclawed-oss/ into a proprietary project is permitted by MIT; the proprietary code does NOT thereby acquire MIT terms.

Trademark

"OpenClaw" may be a trademark of the upstream project's authors. "enclawed" is used here as the name of the fork; no claim to upstream trademarks is made or implied. Before publishing under either name, the publisher should perform a trademark search appropriate to its jurisdictions.

Contributor agreements

Any code contributed to enclawed-oss/ after the dual-license split should be accepted only under MIT terms (or, at the publisher's discretion, under a Developer Certificate of Origin or Contributor License Agreement that grants the publisher MIT-compatible rights). Contributions accepted without explicit MIT terms cannot be shipped under MIT.

Disclaimer

This notice is for transparency, not legal advice. The licensing posture described here was assembled from common open-core practice; the publisher (Enclawed LLC) is responsible for independently verifying with qualified counsel that:

  • the publisher actually holds copyright to the contributions credited above (employment agreements, work-for-hire, no third-party contamination);
  • no incompatible third-party code (GPL, AGPL, license-restricted proprietary fragments, etc.) has been incorporated;
  • the trademark posture is sound in the publisher's intended jurisdictions;
  • patent and export-control concerns have been reviewed.

Until that review is complete, treat this NOTICE as a starting point, not a binding legal opinion.