Foundation

Terms

These terms cover the public Foundation site, the open TLA-185 / TLA-169 grammar, and the TLA-VIS visualisation grammar. They sit beside the Archive Terms of Use, which govern commercial products, subscriptions, and desktop tools.

The TLA-185 / TLA-169 specification is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. TLA-VIS is published under CC BY 4.0. Filled Archive packages, the plant engine, and Archive Seal are licensed separately.

Authorship and holding

TLA-185, The Landscape Archive, Archive Studio+, the plant catalogue, and Landscape Archive Planting Factory are authored by The Landscape Archive.

TLA-185 is authored by Mark Norlan Laririt, founder of The Landscape Archive.

Intellectual property in this work is held by The Landscape Vault Pty Ltd and commercially licensed by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd. It is not the property of any professional institute, association, or working group.

Use of TLA-185 beyond the published Creative Commons citation of the open grammar, and use of compiled plant kits, Library fill, and Studio+ catalogue models, is by licence or purchase. Implementing TLA-VIS under CC BY 4.0 grants no right to those Archive packages. Citation, contribution, implementation, or institutional interest does not assign ownership.

Public specification

TLA-185 is the published plant-metadata spine. Anyone may read and cite the open grammar under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Attribution is required. Non-commercial reference use is permitted without modification under that licence. A written Archive licence is required to implement TLA-185 or TLA-169 in commercial products and workflows.

Licence & scope Archive Terms of Use

Visualisation grammar

TLA-VIS is the published plant visualisation grammar: 330 terms across 8 modules, version 1.0.0, ratified 7 September 2026. It names how a plant reads; TLA-185 records what is cited. They are siblings, not substitutes.

The vocabulary and specification are published under CC BY 4.0. Attribution is required. Commercial implementation, translation, and derivative profiles are permitted. The reference implementation is published under Apache-2.0.

The “TLA-VIS” name and the conformance mark are retained. Anyone may implement the grammar; only conformant implementations may claim the mark.

Implementing TLA-VIS licences nothing of the Archive’s data or software. The plant engine, Studio+, compiled plant kits, Library fill, curated species records, meshes, and stills remain held by The Landscape Vault Pty Ltd and commercially licensed by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd. TLA-185 and TLA-169 remain CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Term names are published; per-term botanical definitions remain outstanding work. TLA-VIS is not an ISO standard and is not governed by an independent board.

TLA-VIS page CC BY 4.0 Licence & scope

Archive Seal and commercial products

Archive Seal is a commercial attestation issued by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd. It records that a named organisation pack or output was sealed under the Archive’s published workflow at a stated time.

Foundation Approved is a Foundation recognition path. TLA-185 is the published spine. Citing the open grammar is not a Seal, a Foundation Approved mark, or a licence to a filled Archive package.

Accounts and sign-in

Foundation member programme pages use your existing Landscape Archive account through the identity bridge. People join organisations; there is no separate company login.

Open specification, registry, governance, awards, and volunteer pages remain public.

Professional use

TLA-185 is the published plant-metadata spine. Open grammar and draft living-system orbits are reference material for studio and teaching work. Field Notes are public essays on this site. A registered professional remains responsible for site investigation, statutory approvals, and design judgment.

Archive Seal is a commercial attestation issued by The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd. Foundation Approved is a Foundation recognition path when criteria are published. The TLA-VIS conformance mark records a claim of conformance to the published grammar. A local inspect on this site records a workstation step. None of those marks is a statutory accreditation, government endorsement, or ISO certification.

Acceptable use

Readers may cite the open TLA-185 / TLA-169 grammar under the published Creative Commons notice; commercial implementation of that records grammar, filled Archive packages, and Archive Seal remain separately licensed. TLA-VIS may be implemented commercially under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

Use this site in a way that respects the published licence, the identity bridge, and other readers. Binding Archive acceptable-use terms sit in the Archive Terms of Use.

Archive Terms of Use

Intra-group licence

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. The open-specification licence for this site is recorded on Licence & scope.

Licence & scope Archive legal centre

Credentials

Academic qualifications held by the founder may be confirmed with the awarding institution through that institution’s standard verification or alumni-verification process. This site does not publish student numbers, transcripts, or other private identifiers.

Legal notices for the Foundation site may be sent to admin@landscapearchive.com.au. These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, in the same lane as the Archive Terms of Use.