Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Copyright (c) 2026 Nark Contributors

The behavioral contracts in this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and
  indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any
  way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute
  your contributions under the same license as the original.

Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

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ATTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT:

When using contracts from this corpus, you must credit:
"Behavioral contracts from https://github.com/nark-sh/nark-corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0)"

SHAREALIKE REQUIREMENT:

If you create a derivative corpus (fork, modification, extension), you must:
1. License it under CC BY-SA 4.0 (same terms)
2. Make it publicly available
3. Credit the original corpus

This ensures the standard remains open, discoverable, and that improvements flow back
to the community.

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WHY CC BY-SA 4.0?

This license prevents proprietary forks while keeping the corpus open:

✅ Anyone can use contracts locally (free forever)
✅ Anyone can fork and modify (open source)
✅ Improvements must be shared back (ShareAlike)
❌ Cannot create closed/proprietary contract database

This protects the open standard while allowing commercial use.
