Governance

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

TSF-LIC-1 Operational

1. Purpose

This document records the licence terms under which TrustSurface Framework content is published and explains what is and is not covered.

2. TrustSurface Framework content

Copyright (c) 2026 Bryan Chetcuti

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

Full licence text: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

3. Implementation materials

Templates, assessments, and implementation methods are excluded unless explicitly marked as CC BY 4.0.

This exclusion applies to:

  • proprietary assessment instruments
  • delivery templates not published in this repository
  • implementation tooling and automation

Where materials are explicitly marked CC BY 4.0 in the repository, that marking takes precedence over this general exclusion.

4. Attribution guidance

See TSF-CIT-1 - Citation Guidance for the recommended citation format and attribution examples.


  • TSF-CIT-1 - Citation Guidance (recommended citation format and CC BY 4.0 attribution examples)
  • TSF-CNS-1 - Consultation and Contribution Guidance
  • TSF-CHG-1 - Public Changelog and Release Notes

Summary statement

TSF-LIC-1 records the CC BY 4.0 licence that governs TrustSurface Framework content. Implementation materials, proprietary assessment instruments, and delivery methods are excluded unless explicitly marked otherwise.