Research Licenses

The NGARi Research Lab publishes all research outputs open access. Papers are posted to arXiv upon acceptance. Datasets, benchmarks, and governance documents are freely available. See our Research Charter for the full open access policy.

All reference implementations of research results, including the NS BOS kernel source code, are released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Under Apache 2.0, you may:

• Use, copy, modify, and distribute the code for any purpose, including commercial use.
• Sublicense the code under different terms, provided you preserve the original copyright notice.
• Use the code in proprietary projects.

You may not use the trademarks of NGARi Corporation without separate written permission. The Apache 2.0 license includes an express grant of patent rights from contributors.

Full text: apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Research datasets, benchmarks, and governance documents (including the NGARi Constitution, Research Charter, and this page) are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).

Under CC-BY 4.0, you may:

• Share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
• No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Full text: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Notwithstanding any provision of the Apache 2.0 or CC-BY 4.0 licenses, NGARi technology — including but not limited to reference implementations, software, models, and datasets — may not be used for:

• Weapons systems, targeting, or autonomous lethal force.
• Mass surveillance, dragnet data collection, or population monitoring by government entities.
• Any application that violates international human rights law.

This restriction is a condition of the license. Use of NGARi research outputs for these purposes is prohibited regardless of the permissive terms of Apache 2.0 or CC-BY 4.0.

Research papers published by the NGARi Research Lab are posted to arXiv under standard arXiv open access terms. Authors retain copyright. Papers are made available for download, distribution, and citation subject to the terms set by the publishing venue.

For questions about research licensing: [email protected]
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