TalkOrigins Archive License and Reuse Notice
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This repository contains a public static mirror of the TalkOrigins Archive.
It is a mixed-rights historical and editorial collection, not a single-license
software package and not a blanket Creative Commons or open-source release.

Summary
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1. Legacy Archive documents remain copyrighted by their individual authors
   unless a page-specific notice says otherwise.

2. The collection, arrangement, route-preserving archive presentation, and
   TalkOrigins Archive site identity are copyrighted by the TalkOrigins Archive
   and/or its maintainers.

3. The Archive's published copyright policy applies to legacy articles and
   collection content:

   https://talkorigins.org/origins/copyright.html

   In summary, the Archive has historically allowed noncommercial personal or
   educational reproduction of Archive documents if the text is not altered or
   edited and the author's copyright notice is preserved. Page-specific notices
   and reprint/source notices override that general policy where they are more
   specific.

4. Quotation, excerpting, and fair-use copying must be attributed. Web pages
   quoting Archive material should link back to the original page or provide
   its URL.

5. Translation is allowed under the same conditions as reproduction of articles,
   provided that a good-faith accurate translation is attempted, the original
   English page is linked, reasonable effort is made to contact the author, and
   the author's wishes are respected.

6. Commercial republication, edited republication, derivative republication, or
   reuse beyond the Archive policy requires permission from the relevant
   author(s) or rights holder(s).

7. Some pages include material reprinted from books, journals, letters,
   correspondence, images, figures, legal/project collections, or other outside
   sources. Those page-level notices control. Permission-limited material may
   be suitable for display in the Archive but not for further redistribution,
   translation, mirroring, or bulk reuse.

Modernization, Metadata, and Generated Surfaces
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The modern static edition preserves legacy routes and legacy article bodies
while adding site shell, navigation, search metadata, JSON-LD, RSS/Atom feeds,
translation status, reader-path cards, review links, and other generated or
editorial aids.

Unless a file says otherwise:

- Code written for the modern static presentation may be reused under the MIT
  License terms below.
- Generated metadata, route inventories, search indexes, RSS/Atom feeds,
  JSON-LD wrappers, and navigation data may be reused for indexing, citation,
  preservation, accessibility, and noncommercial educational archive use,
  provided that they are not used to imply permission to alter or relicense
  the underlying legacy article text.
- Generated or editorial aids must remain distinguishable from attributed
  legacy author content. They should not be represented as statements by the
  original article authors unless the page itself says so.

Workbench, Draft, and Review Material
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Workbench, author-review, evidence-docket, review-queue, source-matching,
translation-operation, and other editorial/process surfaces are not public
Archive content unless they have been explicitly promoted to the public site.
They may include unreviewed generated text, private research state, source
matching artifacts, permission-limited source references, or author-review
drafts.

Those materials are not licensed for propagation, indexing, translation,
mirroring, or release bundles merely because they appear in a repository,
build artifact, preview, or static mirror. Their own page notices and the
current public/private publication policy control.

Third-Party Software and Assets
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Third-party software, libraries, fonts, images, scans, figures, and other
assets remain under their own licenses or rights notices. Notable examples in
this tree include:

- `vendor/minisearch/LICENSE.txt`
- `scripts/COPYING`

Other third-party assets may also carry file-local or page-local notices.

MIT License for Modernization Code
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For original code in this repository that was written for the modern static
presentation and that is not otherwise covered by a more specific notice:

Copyright (c) 2026 TalkOrigins Archive maintainers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of such software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Practical Reading
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If you are linking to the Archive, link freely.

If you are quoting a small part of a page, attribute it and link the original.

If you are reproducing a full page for noncommercial personal or educational
use, preserve the complete text and author copyright notice, do not edit the
text, and check for page-specific restrictions.

If you are editing, translating, commercially republishing, bulk mirroring, or
using permission-limited reprint material, check the page notice and obtain any
needed permission from the relevant rights holder.
