NOTICE

NOTICE
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This product includes software and data developed by Dr John O'Hare / DreamLab AI
Consulting Ltd.

  Copyright (c) 2024-2026 Dr John O'Hare / DreamLab AI Consulting Ltd

Licensing is split by path. LICENSING.md is the authoritative scope statement; where
this NOTICE and LICENSING.md disagree, LICENSING.md governs.

  pipeline/, static/, docs/, examples/, .github/, root Markdown
                    — GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later
                      (AGPL-3.0-or-later)         full text: LICENSE
  explorer/         — MIT License                 full text: LICENSE-EXPLORER
  ontology/, dist/  — Open Database License v1.0
                      (ODbL-1.0)                  full text: LICENSE-DATA

The LICENSE file at the repository root is the AGPL-3.0 text. Automated licence
detectors read that file and will label the entire repository AGPL-3.0. That label is
incorrect for explorer/, ontology/ and dist/.

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THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS
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1. WebVOWL
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`explorer/` is a derivative work of WebVOWL.

  Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Vincent Link, Steffen Lohmann, Eduard Marbach,
                          Stefan Negru, Vitalis Wiens
  Licensed under the MIT License.

The unmodified MIT licence text is retained in two places, byte-identical:

  explorer/license.txt      (as vendored)
  LICENSE-EXPLORER          (at the repository root, for discoverability)

Upstream:  https://github.com/VisualDataWeb/WebVOWL
Parent:    https://github.com/DreamLab-AI/WasmVOWL   (branch: master)

CORRECTION TO EARLIER NOTICES. A previous version of this file stated that this
derivative is distributed under AGPL-3.0-or-later, on the basis that the MIT License
permits sublicensing. That statement is withdrawn. `explorer/` is distributed under the
MIT License, unchanged.

The reason for the reversal is set out in LICENSING.md and is recorded here so the
change is not mistaken for an oversight: substantially identical code is published under
MIT at DreamLab-AI/WasmVOWL, so an AGPL claim over this copy would bind readers of this
repository without restricting anyone willing to take the MIT copy instead. The MIT grant
is therefore passed through as received.

The copyright notice above must be preserved in all copies and substantial portions of
`explorer/`. That obligation runs to the WebVOWL authors and is not DreamLab AI's to
waive.

`explorer/` is not a verbatim copy of WasmVOWL. The upstream `legacy/` tree — the
original D3 implementation of WebVOWL — is not vendored here.

Internal manifests are consistent with this: explorer/package.json declares
"license": "MIT" and explorer/rust-wasm/Cargo.toml declares license = "MIT".
explorer/modern/package.json carries no license field and is covered by LICENSE-EXPLORER
and by LICENSING.md.


2. VOWL specification
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The visual notation implemented by the explorer follows VOWL (Visual Notation for OWL
Ontologies), developed by the same authors. VOWL is a specification, not code; it is
implemented here rather than copied. Specification documents are published by their
authors under their own terms.


3. Dependencies
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This project depends on, but does not vendor, third-party packages declared in:

  explorer/package.json
  explorer/modern/package.json
  explorer/rust-wasm/Cargo.toml

The Python pipeline requires rdflib >= 7.0.0. No requirements file is committed; the
import is at pipeline/jsonld_to_turtle.py and the version constraint is stated in the
build documentation. rdflib is licensed BSD-3-Clause by its own copyright holders.

Each dependency remains under its own licence, held by its own copyright holders. Those
licences are not superseded by this NOTICE.


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CORPUS PROVENANCE
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The ontology corpus in `ontology/`, and the artefacts derived from it in `dist/`, are
substantially machine-generated — LLM-authored synthetic content produced under human
direction, by design, as a testbed for the pipeline. It is not a curated human-authored
encyclopaedia and should not be cited as an authority on its subject matter.

The provenance metadata carried through the pipeline (did:nostr identifiers,
prov:generatedAtTime, URNs, and the attributedTo field in dist/data/graph/stats.json)
attests traceable generation under human direction. It does not attest human authorship.

Rights in the corpus are asserted on the basis of section 9(3) of the UK Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988, under which the author of a computer-generated work is the
person by whom the arrangements necessary for its creation were undertaken. That
provision has no United States equivalent, and the sui generis database right does not
extend to the EEA for a database made by a UK person after 1 January 2021. LICENSING.md
sets out what this means jurisdiction by jurisdiction, including where the grant is
likely to be worth little.


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RESERVATION OF TEXT AND DATA MINING RIGHTS
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DreamLab AI Consulting Ltd expressly reserves the rights of text and data mining,
including the use of any part of ontology/ or dist/ for training, fine-tuning,
evaluating or otherwise developing machine-learning models, under Article 4(3) of
Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any equivalent national provision. This reservation applies
to the whole of the database and to any substantial part of it, and to every channel
through which it is distributed. It does not restrict acts permitted by section 29A of
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Licences for such use are available. See COMMERCIAL.md.