# The Cryptographic Autonomy License, v. 1.0

*This Cryptographic Autonomy License (the "License") applies to any Work whose
owner has marked it with any of the following notices, or a similar demonstration
of intent: *



SPDX-License-Identifier: CAL-1.0

Licensed under the Cryptographic Autonomy License version 1.0



*or*



SPDX-License-Identifier: CAL-1.0-Combined-Work-Exception

Licensed under the Cryptographic Autonomy License version 1.0, with Combined
Work Exception

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   ## 1. Purpose

This License gives You unlimited permission to use and modify the software
to which it applies (the "Work"), either as-is or in modified form, for Your
private purposes, while protecting the owners and contributors to the software
from liability.

This License also strives to protect the freedom and autonomy of third parties
who receive the Work from you. If any non-affiliated third party receives
any part, aspect, or element of the Work from You, this License requires that
You provide that third party all the permissions and materials needed to independently
use and modify the Work without that third party having a loss of data or
capability due to your actions.

   The full permissions, conditions, and other terms are laid out below.

   ## 2. Receiving a License

In order to receive this License, You must agree to its rules. The rules of
this License are both obligations of Your agreement with the Licensor and
conditions to your License. You must not do anything with the Work that triggers
a rule You cannot or will not follow.

      ### 2.1. Application

The terms of this License apply to the Work as you receive it from Licensor,
as well as to any modifications, elaborations, or implementations created
by You that contain any licensable portion of the Work (a "Modified Work").
Unless specified, any reference to the Work also applies to a Modified Work.

      ### 2.2. Offer and Acceptance

This License is automatically offered to every person and organization. You
show that you accept this License and agree to its conditions by taking any
action with the Work that, absent this License, would infringe any intellectual
property right held by Licensor.

      ### 2.3. Compliance and Remedies

Any failure to act according to the terms and conditions of this License places
Your use of the Work outside the scope of the License and infringes the intellectual
property rights of the Licensor. In the event of infringement, the terms and
conditions of this License may be enforced by Licensor under the intellectual
property laws of any jurisdiction to which You are subject. You also agree
that either the Licensor or a Recipient (as an intended third-party beneficiary)
may enforce the terms and conditions of this License against You via specific
performance.

   ## 3. Permissions 

   

      ### 3.1. Permissions Granted

Conditioned on compliance with section 4, and subject to the limitations of
section 3.2, Licensor grants You the world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive
permission to:

+ a) Take any action with the Work that would infringe the non-patent intellectual
property laws of any jurisdiction to which You are subject; and

+ b) claims that Licensor can license or becomes able to license, to the extent
that those claims are embodied in the Work as distributed by Licensor.

      ### 3.2. Limitations on Permissions Granted

The following limitations apply to the permissions granted in section 3.1:

         

+ a) Licensor does not grant any patent license for claims that are only infringed
due to modification of the Work as provided by Licensor, or the combination
of the Work as provided by Licensor, directly or indirectly, with any other
component, including other software or hardware.

         

+ b) Licensor does not grant any license to the trademarks, service marks,
or logos of Licensor, except to the extent necessary to comply with the attribution
conditions in section 4.1 of this License.

   ## 4. Conditions

If You exercise any permission granted by this License, such that the Work,
or any part, aspect, or element of the Work, is distributed, communicated,
made available, or made perceptible to a non-Affiliate third party (a "Recipient"),
either via physical delivery or via a network connection to the Recipient,
You must comply with the following conditions:

      ### 4.1. Provide Access to Source Code

Subject to the exception in section 4.4, You must provide to each Recipient
a copy of, or no-charge unrestricted network access to, the Source Code corresponding
to the Work ("Access").

The "Source Code" of the Work means the form of the Work preferred for making
modifications, including any comments, configuration information, documentation,
help materials, installation instructions, cryptographic seeds or keys, and
any information reasonably necessary for the Recipient to independently compile
and use the Source Code and to have full access to the functionality contained
in the Work.

         #### 4.1.1. Providing Network Access to the Source Code

Network Access to the Notices and Source Code may be provided by You or by
a third party, such as a public software repository, and must persist during
the same period in which You exercise any of the permissions granted to You
under this License and for at least one year thereafter.

         #### 4.1.2. Source Code for a Modified Work

Subject to the exception in section 4.5, You must provide to each Recipient
of a Modified Work Access to Source Code corresponding to those portions of
the Work remaining in the Modified Work as well as the modifications used
by You to create the Modified Work. The Source Code corresponding to the modifications
in the Modified Work must be provided to the Recipient either a) under this
License, or b) under a Compatible Open Source License.

         #### 4.1.3. Coordinated Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities

You may delay providing the Source Code corresponding to a particular modification
of the Work for up to ninety (90) days (the "Embargo Period") if:

            

+ a) the modification is intended to address a newly-identified vulnerability
or a security flaw in the Work,

            

+ b) disclosure of the vulnerability or security flaw before the end of the
Embargo Period would put the data, identity, or autonomy of one or more Recipients
of the Work at significant risk,

            

+ c) You are participating in a coordinated disclosure of the vulnerability
or security flaw with one or more additional Licensees, and

            

+ d) Access to the Source Code pertaining to the modification is provided
to all Recipients at the end of the Embargo Period.

      ### 4.2. Maintain User Autonomy

In addition to providing each Recipient the opportunity to have Access to
the Source Code, You cannot use the permissions given under this License to
interfere with a Recipient's ability to fully use an independent copy of the
Work generated from the Source Code You provide with the Recipient's own User
Data.

"User Data" means any data that is an input to or an output from the Work,
where the presence of the data is necessary for substantially identical use
of the Work in an equivalent context chosen by the Recipient, and where the
Recipient has an existing ownership interest, an existing right to possess,
or where the data has been generated by, for, or has been assigned to the
Recipient.

         #### 4.2.1. No Withholding User Data

Throughout any period in which You exercise any of the permissions granted
to You under this License, You must also provide to any Recipient to whom
you provide services via the Work, a no-charge copy, provided in a commonly
used electronic form, of the Recipient's User Data in your possession, to
the extent that such User Data is available to You for use in conjunction
with the Work.

         #### 4.2.2. No Technical Measures that Limit Access

You may not, by means of the use cryptographic methods applied to anything
provided to the Recipient, by possession or control of cryptographic keys,
seeds, hashes, by any other technological protection measures, or by any other
method, limit a Recipient's ability to access any functionality present in
Recipient's independent copy of the Work, or to deny a Recipient full control
of the Recipient's User Data.

         #### 4.2.3. No Legal or Contractual Measures that Limit Access

You may not contractually restrict a Recipient's ability to independently
exercise the permissions granted under this License. You waive any legal power
to forbid circumvention of technical protection measures that include use
of the Work, and You waive any claim that the capabilities of the Work were
limited or modified as a means of enforcing the legal rights of third parties
against Recipients.

      ### 4.3. Provide Notices and Attribution

You must retain all licensing, authorship, or attribution notices contained
in the Source Code (the "Notices"), and provide all such Notices to each Recipient,
together with a statement acknowledging the use of the Work. Notices may be
provided directly to a Recipient or via an easy-to-find hyperlink to an Internet
location also providing Access to Source Code.

      ### 4.4. Scope of Conditions in this License

You are required to uphold the conditions of this License only relative to
those who are Recipients of the Work from You. Other than providing Recipients
with the applicable Notices, Access to Source Code, and a copy of and full
control of their User Data, nothing in this License requires You to provide
processing services to or engage in network interactions with anyone.

      ### 4.5. Combined Work Exception

As an exception to condition that You provide Recipients Access to Source
Code, any Source Code files marked by the Licensor as having the "Combined
Work Exception," or any object code exclusively resulting from Source Code
files so marked, may be combined with other Software into a "Larger Work."
So long as you comply with the requirements to provide Recipients the applicable
Notices and Access to the Source Code provided to You by Licensor, and you
provide Recipients access to their User Data and do not limit Recipient's
ability to independently work with their User Data, any other Software in
the Larger Work as well as the Larger Work as a whole may be licensed under
the terms of your choice.

   ## 5. Term and Termination

The term of this License begins when You receive the Work, and continues until
terminated for any of the reasons described herein, or until all Licensor's
intellectual property rights in the Software expire, whichever comes first
("Term"). This License cannot be revoked, only terminated for the reasons
listed below.

      ### 5.1. Effect of Termination

If this License is terminated for any reason, all permissions granted to You
under Section 3 by any Licensor automatically terminate. You will immediately
cease exercising any permissions granted in this License relative to the Work,
including as part of any Modified Work.

      ### 5.2. Termination for Non-Compliance; Reinstatement

This License terminates automatically if You fail to comply with any of the
conditions in section 4. As a special exception to termination for non-compliance,
Your permissions for the Work under this License will automatically be reinstated
if You come into compliance with all the conditions in section 2 within sixty
(60) days of being notified by Licensor or an intended third-party beneficiary
of Your noncompliance. You are eligible for reinstatement of permissions for
the Work one time only, and only for the sixty days immediately after becoming
aware of noncompliance. Loss of permissions granted for the Work under this
License due to either a) sustained noncompliance lasting more than sixty days
or b) subsequent termination for noncompliance after reinstatement, is permanent,
unless rights are specifically restored by Licensor in writing.

      ### 5.3. Termination Due to Litigation

If You initiate litigation against Licensor, or any Recipient of the Work,
either direct or indirect, asserting that the Work directly or indirectly
infringes any patent, then all permissions granted to You by this License
shall terminate. In the event of termination due to litigation, all permissions
validly granted by You under this License, directly or indirectly, shall survive
termination. Administrative review procedures, declaratory judgment actions,
counterclaims in response to patent litigation, and enforcement actions against
former Licensees terminated under this section do not cause termination due
to litigation.

   ## 6. Disclaimer of Warranty and Limit on Liability

As far as the law allows, the Work comes AS-IS, without any warranty of any
kind, and no Licensor or contributor will be liable to anyone for any damages
related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim, or
for any type of damages, including indirect, special, incidental, or consequential
damages of any type arising as a result of this License or the use of the
Work including, without limitation, damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage,
computer failure or malfunction, loss of profits, revenue, or any and all
other commercial damages or losses.

   ## 7. Other Provisions 

   

      ### 7.1. Affiliates

An "Affiliate" means any other entity that, directly or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common
control with, the Licensee. Employees of a Licensee and natural persons acting
as contractors exclusively providing services to Licensee are also Affiliates.

      ### 7.2. Choice of Jurisdiction and Governing Law

A Licensor may require that any action or suit by a Licensee relating to a
Work provided by Licensor under this License may be brought only in the courts
of a particular jurisdiction and under the laws of a particular jurisdiction
(excluding its conflict-of-law provisions), if Licensor provides conspicuous
notice of the particular jurisdiction to all Licensees.

      ### 7.3. No Sublicensing

This License is not sublicensable. Each time You provide the Work or a Modified
Work to a Recipient, the Recipient automatically receives a license under
the terms described in this License. You may not impose any further reservations,
conditions, or other provisions on any Recipients' exercise of the permissions
granted herein.

      ### 7.4. Attorneys' Fees

In any action to enforce the terms of this License, or seeking damages relating
thereto, including by an intended third-party beneficiary, the prevailing
party shall be entitled to recover its costs and expenses, including, without
limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with
such action, including any appeal of such action. A "prevailing party" is
the party that achieves, or avoids, compliance with this License, including
through settlement. This section shall survive the termination of this License.

      ### 7.5. No Waiver

Any failure by Licensor to enforce any provision of this License will not
constitute a present or future waiver of such provision nor limit Licensor's
ability to enforce such provision at a later time.

      ### 7.6. Severability

If any provision of this License is held to be unenforceable, such provision
shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable. Any
invalid or unenforceable portion will be interpreted to the effect and intent
of the original portion. If such a construction is not possible, the invalid
or unenforceable portion will be severed from this License but the rest of
this License will remain in full force and effect.

      ### 7.7. License for the Text of this License

The text of this license is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
4.0 International License, with the caveat that any modifications of this
license may not use the name "Cryptographic Autonomy License" or any name
confusingly similar thereto to describe any derived work of this License.
