# Licences The Major Matters Bench is published so it can be repeated and checked. Copy it, run it, build on it, and say where it came from. - **Harness code** (`harness/`, and any scripts under `tools/` and an entry's `harness/`): Apache License 2.0. See `harness/LICENSE`. The vendored Major Labs kits inside `harness/kits/` keep their own Apache 2.0 licence, and the `canonicalize` module keeps its licence file. - **Protocols, the reporting standard, findings, logs, intake and policy text** (`protocols/`, `REPORTING.md`, `POLICY.md`, `README.md`, every entry's `.md` files): Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercially, if you credit "Charlie Major, the Major Matters Bench" with a link to https://majormatters.co/bench and say what you changed. - **Evidence files** (every entry's `evidence/` folder, including transcripts, chains and manifests): CC BY 4.0, same attribution. Each manifest root and signer DID identifies the dataset it belongs to. - **Names.** "Major Matters", "Major Labs" and "the Major Matters Bench" name this publication's work. Describe a run made with these protocols as "run under the Major Matters Bench Protocol v", not as an entry on the bench, unless it was published here or accepted as a contributed run. ## How to cite Charlie Major. The Major Matters Bench, entry : . Major Matters, <date>. https://majormatters.co/bench/<entry folder>/ (protocol <name>-v<N>; manifest root <12 hex>). A dataset DOI is minted per batch of entries on Zenodo and recorded in each entry's FINDINGS once it exists.