# Licence — specification prose

The Open Agent Rules **specification prose** is licensed under the
[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
(CC BY 4.0).

This covers:

- `1.0/open-agent-rules.md` — the normative specification
- `1.0/EXTENSIONS.md`
- `RATIONALE.md`
- `GOVERNANCE.md`
- this file

Attribution line:

> Open Agent Rules, © 2026 Painted Wolf LLC. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
> <https://openagentrules.org/>

## Everything else is Apache-2.0

The JSON Schemas (`1.0/schemas/*.json`), the vocabulary registry (`1.0/vocabulary.yaml`), the
conformance corpus (`1.0/conformance/`), the example rule pack (`examples/`), and all code are
licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See `LICENSE` in the repository root.

## Implementation grant

Anyone may implement this specification, for any purpose, without permission, notification, or
fee. Painted Wolf LLC has published an irrevocable patent non-assertion covenant covering
every implementation — see `PATENTS.md`.

A licence on the prose is not a licence to implement — it never needed to be. This paragraph
exists so that nobody has to ask.