# Copyrights and Licenses

## Copyrights

For all the code and documentation in this repository, the copyright is owned by one or more of the following:

- BigchainDB GmbH
- A BigchainDB contributor who agreed to a BigchainDB Contributor License Agreement (CLA) with BigchainDB GmbH. (See [BEP-16](https://github.com/bigchaindb/BEPs/tree/master/16).)
- A BigchainDB contributor who signed off on the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for all their contributions. (See [BEP-24](https://github.com/bigchaindb/BEPs/tree/master/24).)
- (Rarely, see the **Exceptions Section** below) A third pary who licensed the code in question under an open source license.

## 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 4.0 International license, the full text of which can be found at [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

## Exceptions

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