Emergence-World/LICENSE
teaxio df00ff66c5 Switch license to CC BY-NC 4.0 and emphasize attribution requirement
Drops the NoDerivatives restriction so researchers can remix, annotate,
translate, and build on the material non-commercially. Tightens the
attribution language in both the LICENSE and the README banner, adds a
recommended attribution string, and points readers at the BibTeX
citation in the README for academic use. The non-commercial scope and
the AI-training carve-out are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-26 12:50:57 -04:00

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Emergence World — Research-Only License Notice
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Copyright (c) 2026 Emergence AI. All rights reserved.
This repository (including all documentation, agent profiles, landmark
descriptions, tool catalogs, governance documents, datasets, metrics,
and any other content) is licensed to the public under the
**Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
License (CC BY-NC 4.0)**.
You are free to:
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Emergence AI, provide a link to this repository
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For academic and research use, please also include the citation
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Attribution Format
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"Emergence World" by Emergence AI, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
Source: https://github.com/EmergenceAI/Emergence-World
For academic publications, please use the BibTeX citation provided in
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commercial purpose — requires prior written permission from
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Full License Text
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The full legal code of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License is available at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
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