ELIXPO LICENSE
==============

This repository is part of the Elixpo ecosystem and is licensed under the
Elixpo licensing standard. The same standard applies to every repository in
the ecosystem. Any product-specific terms for this repository are declared in
the NOTICE file (the "notice board") under LICENSES/, which must be read
together with this LICENSE.

The structure of the LICENSES/ directory mirrors the Linux kernel's LICENSES/
tree: canonical license texts live under LICENSES/, this file is the pointer.

CODE
====

All source code in this repository (the OreoOS operating system, oreoWare
hardware drivers, apps, host-side tooling, scripts, configuration, and CI) is
provided under:

	SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT WITH Oreo-trademarks

Being under the terms of the MIT License, as set out in:

	LICENSES/preferred/MIT

ASSETS
======

All visual and brand assets and their prompts (the Oreo mascot art, badge
sprites, app icons, banners, splash art, and the like under assets/ and the
per-app assets/ trees) is provided under:

	SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 WITH Oreo-trademarks

Being under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License, as set out in:

	LICENSES/preferred/CC-BY-4.0

EXCEPTION (names, mascot, and royalties)
========================================

Both grants above carry an explicit trademark, naming, and royalty exception:

	LICENSES/exceptions/Oreo-trademarks

The Oreo mascot character, the chest "E-badge", the "Elixpo", "Oreo",
"Oreo Badge", and "OreoOS" names, the elixpo.com and *.elixpo.com identifiers,
and the brand palette are reserved trademarks of the Elixpo project. The
licenses above grant rights to the code and asset files as files. They do NOT
grant rights to the Elixpo or Oreo brand, nor the right to offer a competing
product or hardware device under the Elixpo or Oreo name. This is what protects
the ecosystem's royalties while keeping the code and assets free and open. See
the exception for the full terms (including permitted referential use).

REGISTERED COPYRIGHT (OreoOS firmware / OS source)
==================================================

Copyright in the OreoOS firmware and operating-system source code in this
repository is a registered copyright, filed with the Copyright Office under

	Registration No. LD-26455/2026-CO

held by Elixpo (Ayushman Bhattacharya). The registration records authorship of
the OreoOS firmware / OS source; it does NOT narrow the MIT grant to those
source files - the code stays free and open under MIT WITH Oreo-trademarks. The
registration underpins the "Oreo", "OreoOS", and "Oreo Badge" brand and royalty
reservations in LICENSES/exceptions/Oreo-trademarks and the notice board. The
visual and brand assets remain protected separately under CC-BY-4.0 WITH
Oreo-trademarks (see the ASSETS section above and the notice board).

NOTICE BOARD (per-product reservations)
=======================================

Some Elixpo products ship exclusive artifacts on top of their source - a
published package, a hosted SaaS service, a firmware/OTA release bundle, a
reserved hardware design, a paid tier, and so on. Any such product-specific
reservation is declared in:

	LICENSES/NOTICE   (the notice board)

Where the NOTICE file adds a reservation for an exclusive artifact, that
reservation governs that artifact, in addition to this LICENSE.

THIRD-PARTY NOTICES
===================

Other licenses may apply to third-party components used by this project. In
particular, firmware images built from this repository incorporate upstream
components (MicroPython under MIT, Espressif ESP-IDF under Apache-2.0) that
carry their own license terms, which downstream distributors must retain:

	LICENSES/notices/notice-board
	LICENSES/preferred/Apache-2.0
	LICENSES/README.md

CONTRIBUTIONS
=============

By submitting a contribution to this repository you agree that it is licensed
inbound under this standard (MIT for code, CC-BY-4.0 for assets) and that you
have the right to submit it. The Developer Certificate of Origin
(https://developercertificate.org) applies to every commit. We do not require
a CLA.

Copyright (c) 2023 Elixpo and the Elixpo contributors.
OreoOS firmware / OS source: Registered Copyright No. LD-26455/2026-CO (Elixpo).
SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT WITH Oreo-trademarks
