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License and attribution
Section titled “License and attribution”NOTICE names the project “OSCAL LinkML Schema (oscal)”, copyright 2026 Noel McLoughlin. It says that the code in the repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, which LICENSE holds, and that some of the content the repository carries is third-party work under its own terms.1 The README says that the schema and the code are under the Apache License 2.0, and that this is not an official NIST project and its use implies no endorsement by NIST.2 CONTRIBUTING.md says that a contribution is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, and asks that NOTICE be updated when something new comes from elsewhere.
What NOTICE lists
Section titled “What NOTICE lists”- The schema’s rendering of OSCAL.
src/oscal/schema/*.yaml,src/oscal/datamodel/andproject/model what NIST’s OSCAL defines. They are this project’s rendering of OSCAL 1.2.3 as a LinkML schema, with NIST as the source of the definitions. They are not NIST’s, and their use does not imply endorsement by NIST. - OSCAL’s metaschema, by NIST.
src/oscal/schema/metaschema/holds OSCAL’s metaschema sources from the v1.2.3 release, beside NIST’sLICENSE.md. NIST’s work is in the public domain within the United States, and NIST dedicates it to the worldwide public domain under CC0 1.0. NIST asks that a derived work acknowledge NIST as the source and note the date and nature of its changes, and CHANGELOG.md records each release of this rendering and what it changed. See OSCAL metaschema copy. - Test fixtures.
tests/data/cncf-ai-benchmarks/holds OSCAL component definitions from oscal-compass-lab/ai-benchmarks, licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, andtests/data/invalid/cncf-ai-benchmarks/holds copies of them with one fault injected in each.tests/data/luigi_carpio/holds a component definition by Luigi Carpio, licensed under the MIT License, whose text istests/data/luigi_carpio/LICENSE.txt. - linkml-project-copier. The project was generated from this template, and its justfile, configuration and documentation scaffolding derive from it, under the MIT License, copyright 2025 David Linke. The README credits the template by its DOI,
10.5281/zenodo.15163584. - The knowledge bundle’s tooling. The scripts under
.lokf/scripts/and.lokf/m365/and the knowledge-librarian, knowledge-registrar, knowledge-release and knowledge-sync workflows are copies of the ktl-sidecar templates in knowledge-trust-ladder.website/and the knowledge-website workflow derive from its ktl-website templates. All of them are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
website/NOTICE says that src/components/KnowledgeGraph.astro is adapted from the LOKF toolkit’s site, copyright 2026 Nolan Nichols, under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and that the file’s header comment lists the changes.3 website/README.md says that the site’s two typefaces are self-hosted from Fontsource under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The bundle’s root index.md declares the licence CC BY 4.0 for the knowledge bundle itself.