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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.

Governance

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.

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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.

TLA-VIS page CC BY 4.0

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.

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Open grammar vs commercial tools

Citing the open TLA-185 field dictionary and conformance rules under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 is free. That Creative Commons notice does not licence Landscape Archive Tools desktop applications — including TLA-Institute, Veritas, Landscape Archive ML Hub, Plant Workbench, Plant Studio, and Plant Engine — filled Library depth, Hub / Revit delivery, Data API, Archive Seal attestation, or other commercial products of The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd.

Public validator and Evidence Checker inspect files locally. They are not Archive Seal, Foundation Approved, or government approval. Local desktop Evidence checks and admin-operated Seal verification are Archive product surfaces. Binding Archive terms are published on the commercial site.

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Commercial products

Commercial products, populated datasets, and software — including the Landscape Library, The Landscape Archive Hub, Landscape Archive Tools desktop applications, connectors, Studio+™ materials, Data API, Archive Seal, and related delivery tooling — are licensed separately by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd.

Those products are not offered under Creative Commons.

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Software we provide

Landscape Archive Tools and related desks run as local Windows applications. Some are staged to a Landscape Archive Tools folder rather than offered as a public download. The licence still applies when they run.

TLA-Institute, TLA-SpeciesNote, and Veritas work on files you open or save on the device. Notes stay local until a signed-in member uses Submit for review, Contribute intake, Hub, or another Archive feature that sends that material. Empty measurements stay empty. Submission does not grant Archive Seal.

Binding Archive terms, including the EULA and Privacy Policy, are published by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd on the commercial site.

  • TLA-Dictionary — Local TLA-185 dictionary browser: search, term detail, and cite export.
  • TLA-Library — Local Library catalogue of entitled plant records. Australia is the live commercial fill.
  • TLA-Authoring — Record and term authoring workbench with local draft packs.
  • TLA-Teaching — Offline teaching modules and student handout export.
  • TLA-Institute — Offline conformance workbench for institutions: join kit, dictionary, gap scan, DRAFT orbit binding, and teaching packs.
  • TLA-Evidence — Local validator for JSON bundles and Archive Audit Packs (.tlaa).
  • TLA-Procurement — RFQ checklist and published procurement sentence, with local export.
  • TLA-Seal — Local Archive Seal workstation: hash, mark, and verify on the device.
  • TLA-DataAPI — Local Data API console for entitled machine access.
  • TLA-RevitBridge — Hub and Revit connector workstation.
  • TLA-PlantAssembler — Discontinued. Leftover Vue craft-host gate; use Plant Workbench, Plant Craft, or Plant Studio.
  • Landscape Archive Plant Studio — Preview in progress. Not yet ready for daily modelling. Plant Workbench and Plant Craft are the modelling desks.
  • TLA-PlantPilot — Photo to morphology brief to Blender generate, when Blender is installed.
  • TLA-SpeciesNote — Local measured species notes that Veritas can open.
  • TLA-PlantLodPipeline — LOD 100–400 stage tooling toward a Revit import package and entitled Hub ship.
  • Veritas — Measured species note to a plan for Workbench or Plant Craft. Empty measurements stay empty.
  • Landscape Archive ML Hub — Local machine-learning desk for Archive plant workflows.
  • Plant Workbench — Daily modeller for Archive plant craft.
  • Plant Engine — Blender add-on that shares the Archive plant recipe and export path.
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