# Notice

**DoView Boards version:** V1.4.4  
**Release date:** 2026-08-25  
**Document status:** Notice file for the V1.4.4 DoView Boards prompt package release

## Apache-2.0 licence

The DoView Boards prompt package release materials in this repository are made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0, except where a file or section states otherwise.

See [`LICENSE`](LICENSE).

## Attribution

DoView Planning and DoView Boards were developed by Dr Paul Duignan.

A suitable acknowledgment is:

> This work uses the DoView Planning approach and DoView Boards developed by Dr Paul Duignan. See DoViewPlanning.org.

For software, apps, platforms, integrations, AI systems, or developer tools, a suitable acknowledgment is:

> This software supports DoView Boards using the DoView Planning approach developed by Dr Paul Duignan. See DoViewPlanning.org. This software is not affiliated with or endorsed by DoView®.

## Trademark notice

DoView® is a registered trademark of DoView Corporation Limited.

Apache-2.0 gives permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute the covered code and materials subject to the terms of that licence. It does not grant permission to claim official DoView® endorsement, certification, approval, quality assurance, affiliation, badge rights, or official status.

You may accurately describe your work as DoView-compatible, supporting DoView Boards, based on DoView Planning, or implementing the DoView Boards minimum specification, provided that the statement is accurate and does not imply official status.

Use of the DoView® Badge, Official DoView® Badge, official DoView® logos, certification marks, approval marks, quality marks, compliance marks, or similar official-status marks requires written permission from Dr Paul Duignan or the DoView® trademark owner.

Our trademark use policy is very permissive. You can create DoView-compatible tools, boards, apps, plugins, integrations, repositories, training, consulting and resources. You just cannot imply that your work is official, endorsed, certified, approved, quality-assured, affiliated with, or produced by Dr Paul Duignan / DoView Planning unless this has been agreed in writing.

The current public policy is at <https://doviewplanning.org/trademarkuse>.

For the developer-facing trademark and attribution guidance, see [`docs/trademark-and-attribution.md`](docs/trademark-and-attribution.md).

## Official status

Implementing the DoView Boards minimum specification does not make a board, app, platform, system, service, course, training, or other work official, endorsed, certified, approved, quality-assured, affiliated with DoView®, or entitled to use an official DoView® badge.

To ask about official status, badge use, collaboration, review, quality assurance, endorsement, certification, or permission, contact DoView Planning:

<https://doviewplanning.org/contact>

## Security and read-only notice

Generated standalone DoView Board `.html` files are active HTML/JavaScript files, not passive documents.

Read-only copies are a convenience feature. They are not access control, authentication, authorization, encryption, tamper protection, digital signing, audit logging, version control, or a security boundary.

For security, deployment, Board Chat, and read-only guidance, see [`docs/security-and-read-only-notes.md`](docs/security-and-read-only-notes.md).