# Specification license — CC-BY-4.0

The GEML **specification documents** are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License (`CC-BY-4.0`), so anyone may read, share,
adapt, and **build a conformant implementation** of GEML, for any purpose,
including commercially — with attribution.

This deliberately differs from the MIT license on the code (see
[`LICENSE`](../LICENSE)): a specification is not software. Separating the two makes
explicit that GEML is defined by its spec, not by any single implementation, and
that an independent implementation is welcome and unencumbered.

## Documents covered

- `GEML-spec.md`, `GEML-spec_CN.md`
- `GEML-history-spec.md`, `GEML-history-spec_CN.md`
- `in_geml_format/GEML-spec.geml`, `in_geml_format/GEML-spec_CN.geml`, `in_geml_format/GEML-history-spec.geml`,
  `in_geml_format/GEML-history-spec_CN.geml` (the specs, written in GEML — and their
  `.gemlhistory` sidecars)
- `docs/comparisons/COMPARISON.md`, `docs/comparisons/COMPARISON_CN.md`, `docs/comparisons/COMPARISON.geml`,
  `docs/comparisons/COMPARISON_CN.geml`

## License text

SPDX-License-Identifier: `CC-BY-4.0`

Full legal code: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode>
Human-readable summary: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

Attribution: "GEML — General Expressive Markup Language" with a link to this
repository satisfies the attribution requirement.