# Licences

Two different things are in this repository and they carry different licences, stated separately
because conflating them would be unhelpful to anyone trying to reuse either.

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## Code — MIT

Applies to: `assets/*.js`, `assets/*.mjs`, `assets/site.css`, `test/**`, `playwright.config.mjs`,
`package.json`, and the HTML structure of the pages.

```
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Jacob Kao

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this 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.
```

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## Written content and the rubric — CC BY 4.0

Applies to: all prose in the HTML pages, `data/rubric.json`, `data/tools.json`,
`data/questions.json`, `data/recipes.json`, `data/verification.json`, and everything in
`data/context/`.

Licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence][cc]. You may share and
adapt it, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the licence, and
indicate if changes were made.

[cc]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

**Attribution:** Jacob Kao, *What do you actually want from your phone?*

The reciprocal-free licence is deliberate. The rubric is a set of arguable judgements, and the
useful thing to do with an arguable judgement is to reuse it, disagree with it in public, and
publish a better one. A restrictive licence on a set of opinions would be faintly absurd.

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## What is not licensed here

The **underlying research** — the interviews and the report drawn from them — is not in this
repository and is not covered by either licence above. It will be published separately.

The `data/context/` files are one researcher's **synthesis**: findings-level summaries with
confidence stated, written specifically so they contain no interview transcript text, no paper text,
and no quotation from any unpublished interview. No interviewee is named anywhere in this
repository. Where a claim could not be stated without quoting an interview, it was restated as a
finding or left out.

Third-party works cited by reference remain the property of their authors and are not reproduced
here.

**Tool names, trademarks and product names** belong to their respective owners. They appear here as
nominative reference in commentary and comparison. Nothing in this repository is endorsed by or
affiliated with any of them, and no affiliate, referral or other payment is received from any of
them.