bigchaindb/LICENSES.md

# Copyrights and Licenses

## Copyrights

Except as noted in the **Exceptions** section below, for all code and documentation in this repository, BigchainDB GmbH ("We") either:

1. owns the copyright, or
2. owns the right to sublicense it under any license (because all external contributors must agree to a Contributor License Agreement).

## Code Licenses

All code in this repository, including short code snippets in the documentation, but not including the **Exceptions** noted below, is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, the full text of which can be found at [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

For the licenses on all other BigchainDB-related code (i.e. in other repositories), see the LICENSE file in the associated repository.

## Documentation Licenses

The official BigchainDB documentation, _except for the short code snippets embedded within it_, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, the full text of which can be found at [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode).

## Exceptions

The contents of the `k8s/nginx-openresty/` directory are licensed as described in the `LICENSE.md` file in that directory.