MAXGEN — Maxwell Genealogy Standardby OpenGenealogyAI

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Licence

The standard: CC0

The seven MAXGEN schema files and the text of the standard on this site are dedicated to the public domain under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal dedication. You may copy, change, redistribute and build on them for any purpose, commercial or not, without asking and without attribution.

Why CC0 rather than a licence that requires credit? Because a standard only works when adopting it costs nothing, legally or administratively. An archive's counsel should be able to approve MAXGEN in one reading. Credit is welcome, never required.

If you want to credit us anyway

  • In software or documentation: "Uses the MAXGEN standard by OpenGenealogyAI (opengenealogyai.org)."
  • In a dataset: the schema_version field and the $id reference to opengenealogyai.org in every MAXGEN record already say where it came from.
  • In a paper or article: cite as shown at the bottom of this page.

Records: each carries its own

Every record written in MAXGEN declares its own redistribution_license: CC0, public-domain, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or tier2-private (never redistribute). Where a source requires attribution, the attribution{} object in the record holds the credit. The standard is public domain; the data written in it is whatever its owner says it is.

Code: MIT

The validators, fixtures and tooling in the schema repository are released under the MIT licence.

"MAXGEN", "OpenGenealogyAI" and the star-tree logo identify the canonical standard and its steward. Use them to say your software implements MAXGEN. Do not use them for a fork that diverges from the canonical schemas, and do not imply that OpenGenealogyAI endorses your product unless it does.

How to cite

Maxwell, G. MAXGEN: The Maxwell Genealogy Standard, version 1.13. OpenGenealogyAI. https://opengenealogyai.org/ — CC0 1.0.