Lavern — An Agentic Legal Architecture ("The Shem")
Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Antti Innanen

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). See LICENSE
at the repo root for the full text. You may obtain a copy at:

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

This NOTICE file is required by Apache 2.0 §4(d) and aggregates third-party
attribution requirements. The legal datasets and fonts bundled with Lavern
carry their own licenses, which require attribution regardless of how
Lavern itself is licensed.

If you redistribute Lavern with these datasets or fonts included, keep this
NOTICE intact.

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LEGAL DATASETS (seeded via scripts/seed-knowledge-base.ts)
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  CUAD — Contract Understanding Atticus Dataset
  510 contracts, 41 clause types
  License: CC BY 4.0
  Source: https://www.atticusprojectai.org/cuad

  MAUD — Merger Agreement Understanding Dataset
  152 merger agreements, 92 deal points
  License: CC BY 4.0
  Source: https://www.atticusprojectai.org/maud

  ACORD — Atticus Clause Retrieval Dataset
  126K+ expert-rated clause retrieval pairs
  License: CC BY 4.0
  Source: https://www.atticusprojectai.org/acord

  UNFAIR-ToS — Unfair Terms of Service Dataset (LexGLUE)
  5.5K sentences, 8 unfair clause types
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  Source: https://github.com/coastalcph/lex-glue

  LEDGAR — SEC Contract Provisions (LexGLUE)
  60K provisions, 98 clause types
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  Source: https://github.com/coastalcph/lex-glue

  ContractNLI — NOT INCLUDED
  Its CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (non-commercial + share-alike) is incompatible
  with Lavern's permissive (Apache 2.0) distribution license. The seeder no
  longer fetches ContractNLI. Users who specifically want it can pull it
  directly from https://stanfordnlp.github.io/contract-nli/ and accept its
  terms separately.

  Note on CC BY-SA 4.0: The two ShareAlike datasets above are usable inside
  Lavern, but anyone redistributing those specific datasets in a modified
  form inherits ShareAlike obligations. Lavern's own code remains Apache 2.0.

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FONTS
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  Inter — Rasmus Andersson
  License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

  Cormorant Garamond — Christian Thalmann
  License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

  JetBrains Mono — JetBrains
  License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

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PHOTOGRAPHY
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  Lavern's landing page and marketing surfaces use stock photography
  obtained under royalty-free licenses from:

  Unsplash — https://unsplash.com
  License: Unsplash License (royalty-free, no attribution required, but
  attribution provided here as a courtesy and to document provenance)

  Pexels — https://www.pexels.com
  License: Pexels License (royalty-free, no attribution required, but
  attribution provided here as a courtesy and to document provenance)

  Photographs ship in viz/public/ as photo-*.avif and premium_photo-*.avif
  files. Original photographers retain copyright; the above licenses grant
  Lavern (and downstream redistributors of Lavern) free commercial use.

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THIRD-PARTY CODE
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  Lavern depends on a number of npm packages, each carrying its own license.
  See package.json + package-lock.json (and viz/package.json + viz/package-
  lock.json) for the authoritative list. Every dependency is OSI-approved
  and compatible with Apache 2.0 distribution. No GPL or AGPL code is bundled.

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DISCLAIMER
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  This software assists with document analysis and legal design.
  It does not provide legal advice. Always verify outputs with
  qualified legal professionals before relying on them.
