license-policy.yml

# License → redistribution-policy table.
#
# SOURCE OF TRUTH: galaxyproject/foundry-pattern#4. This file is a hand-copied
# materialization of that shared decision, backing the guiding principle
# "Redistributed Content Carries Its License". The statistical-genomics-foundry
# instance keeps an identical copy — any change here is a CROSS-REPO change and
# must be mirrored there (foundry-pattern#4 open question 4 tracks the eventual
# shared-package/sync mechanism; until then, edit both by hand).
#
# Engineering policy, not legal advice. The rows encode the discipline this
# project chooses; genuinely novel or high-stakes licenses get real review
# before verbatim redistribution.
#
# A note's `license` frontmatter is either an SPDX id listed under `licenses:`
# below, or a `LicenseRef-<slug>` custom ref. An id absent from this table (or
# a missing license) resolves to the `default` row: own-words-only + defect.
#
# `allowed_modes` are the casting transform modes (the Mold ref `mode` field:
# verbatim | condense | sidecar) a ref under this license may use:
#   - verbatim-ok (permissive):  verbatim, condense, sidecar
#   - verbatim-ok (copyleft):    verbatim, sidecar   (no own-words launder)
#   - own-words-only:            condense            (no verbatim carry)

version: 1

# Global rules that apply across every row (foundry-pattern#4).
global_rules:
  functional_strings_verbatim: >-
    Equations, parameter/API/function/package names, numeric thresholds, and
    enum values are reproduced verbatim as facts regardless of a row's policy —
    facts and short functional identifiers are not copyrightable expression.
    own-words-only constrains prose, never facts.
  default_deny: >-
    A source with no resolved license id is treated as own-words-only; asking
    casting to carry a verbatim/redistributed ref without a license id is a
    build error, not a warning.
  own_words_not_copyleft_launder: >-
    Paraphrasing covers expression, not the underlying ideas/facts. Do not use
    own-words to sidestep copyleft — for GPL/LGPL carry verbatim-with-license or
    do not carry it.
  license_file_tracks_verbatim: >-
    license_file is required whenever content is carried verbatim; not required
    for own-words-only sources (no text is redistributed), which instead carry a
    citation/attribution.
  foundry_content_out_of_scope: >-
    This table governs third-party pass-through content only. Foundry-authored
    notes are covered by the root LICENSE and are never conflated with it.

# policy:        verbatim-ok | own-words-only
# allowed_modes: casting transform modes permitted for this license
# license_file:  true when a verbatim LICENSES/ copy must accompany the carry
# copyleft:      true when the isolate-in-its-own-file obligation applies
licenses:
  MIT:
    name: MIT
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + license notice

  Apache-2.0:
    name: Apache 2.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + notice + preserve NOTICE

  BSD-2-Clause:
    name: BSD 2-Clause
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + notice

  BSD-3-Clause:
    name: BSD 3-Clause
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + notice + no-endorsement

  AFL-3.0:
    name: Academic Free License 3.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + notice

  CC0-1.0:
    name: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: >-
      none legally — public-domain dedication, no attribution or notice term. The
      CC0 legalcode is still vendored on verbatim carry (uniform with every other
      verbatim-ok row; license_file_tracks_verbatim); a citation is kept as courtesy

  CC-BY-4.0:
    name: CC BY 4.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution (title/author/source/license/changes)

  CC-BY-3.0:
    name: CC BY 3.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution (title/author/source/license/changes)

  CC-BY-2.5:
    name: CC BY 2.5
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution (title/author/source/license/changes)

  CC-BY-2.0:
    name: CC BY 2.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution (title/author/source/license/changes)

  Artistic-2.0:
    name: Artistic License 2.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, condense, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + license notice; state changes to modified content

  GPL-2.0-only:
    name: GPL 2.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: true
    obligations: >-
      notice + same-license + source availability; isolate in its own file, do
      not blend into permissively-licensed prose

  GPL-2.0-or-later:
    name: GPL 2.0 or later
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: true
    obligations: >-
      notice + same-license + source availability; isolate in its own file, do
      not blend into permissively-licensed prose

  GPL-3.0-only:
    name: GPL 3.0
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: true
    obligations: >-
      notice + same-license + source availability; isolate in its own file, do
      not blend into permissively-licensed prose

  LGPL-3.0-or-later:
    name: LGPL 3.0 or later
    policy: verbatim-ok
    allowed_modes: [verbatim, sidecar]
    license_file: true
    copyleft: true
    obligations: notice + LGPL terms; isolate in its own file

  CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0:
    name: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: >-
      attribution + citation; verbatim carry avoided so NC + share-alike do not
      propagate into the KB

  # CC BY-NC* family (any version): the license PERMITS non-commercial verbatim
  # reproduction, but the NC condition travels with the text — a cast that embeds
  # NC prose becomes an NC-encumbered cast, unusable commercially. We take
  # own-words instead (functional strings stay verbatim as facts, per global
  # rules). Same reasoning the CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 row already applies to NC.
  # ND ("NoDerivatives") is treated identically: a summary is itself a derivative,
  # so short quotation rides on the quotation right (outside the license) — no
  # reason to carry NC-encumbered prose.
  CC-BY-NC-4.0:
    name: CC BY-NC 4.0
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + citation; NC condition kept out of casts (own-words)

  CC-BY-NC-3.0:
    name: CC BY-NC 3.0
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + citation; NC condition kept out of casts (own-words)

  CC-BY-NC-2.5:
    name: CC BY-NC 2.5
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + citation; NC condition kept out of casts (own-words)

  CC-BY-NC-2.0-UK:
    name: CC BY-NC 2.0 England & Wales
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: attribution + citation; NC condition kept out of casts (own-words)

  CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0:
    name: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: >-
      attribution + citation; NC + ND kept out of casts (own-words). A summary is
      a derivative, so no verbatim prose is carried under the ND term.

  LicenseRef-arXiv-nonexclusive-distrib-1.0:
    name: arXiv non-exclusive distribution 1.0
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: >-
      citation; arXiv's grant does not give third parties a redistribution right

  LicenseRef-all-rights-reserved:
    name: All rights reserved / read-only manuscript
    policy: own-words-only
    allowed_modes: [condense]
    license_file: false
    copyleft: false
    obligations: citation only

# Applied to any license id not listed above, and to a missing license.
default:
  name: unresolved / missing
  policy: own-words-only
  allowed_modes: [condense]
  license_file: false
  copyleft: false
  defect: true
  obligations: must be resolved to a real id before any verbatim carry