Open specification · Scope
Licence & scope
Quiet record of what the Creative Commons notice covers — and what remains separately licensed. This page is reference copy, not a dual-licence campaign.
Public specification
Public TLA-185 / TLA-169 specification and schema documentation are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Attribution is required. Non-commercial reference use is permitted without modification under that licence. Commercial implementation requires a separate Archive licence. Unauthorised commercial use infringes copyright and is unlawful.
Visualisation grammar
TLA-VIS is a published sibling, not an orbit of TLA-185. The vocabulary and specification are published under CC BY 4.0: attribution required; commercial implementation and derivative profiles are permitted.
The “TLA-VIS” name and conformance mark stay with the steward. Curated species records, meshes, stills, and the Archive engine are not covered by that grant. TLA-185 remains CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — cite it freely; commercial use of the records grammar still needs an Archive licence.
Copyright
Copyright in the public specification is held by The Landscape Vault Pty Ltd.
The Landscape Archive and TLA-185 are authored by The Landscape Archive. Licensing enquiries: admin@landscapearchive.com.au.
TLA-185 is authored by Mark Norlan Laririt, founder of The Landscape Archive.
Copyright is intended for assignment to The Landscape Archive Foundation when a suitable independent entity is established. Until then, the Foundation is stewarded and powered by The Landscape Vault Pty Ltd; commercial products and support are operated by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd. The intra-group licence between The Landscape Vault Pty Ltd and The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd is in force. Binding customer terms remain those published in the Archive Legal centre.
Use of TLA-185 beyond the published Creative Commons citation of the open grammar is by licence. Citation, contribution, or institutional interest does not assign ownership. Licensing enquiries: admin@landscapearchive.com.au.
Inheritance horizon
The Foundation heralds Creative Commons so landscape architecture seventy years from now can still cite and check the open grammar. That horizon is stewardship succession.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 remains the ongoing public licence for TLA-185 / TLA-169. Formal wills, assignments, and succession instruments remain matters for counsel; the governance page states the public intention.
The succession frame does not transfer to TLA-VIS unchanged. A CC BY 4.0 grant carries no non-commercial or no-derivatives condition to fall away and is irrevocable, so the right to implement the grammar does not depend on the Foundation incorporating. Succession there governs the retained name and conformance mark, and the unfinished per-term botanical definitions.
Open grammar vs commercial tools
Citing the open TLA-185 field dictionary and conformance rules under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 is free. Licensing enquiries: admin@landscapearchive.com.au.
Public validator and Evidence Checker inspect files locally. They do not issue Foundation Approved or government approval.
Commercial products
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Software we provide
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