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Copyright (c) 2026 Instats (instats.org)

The Institutional AI Readiness Pack — every instrument, template, survey,
policy model, agreement, worksheet and accompanying document in this
repository — is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (CC BY 4.0).

Full legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Human-readable summary: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


WHY THIS LICENCE
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This pack is a toolkit, not a position paper. Its entire purpose is for a
university to take an instrument, change the words to match its own statutes,
committees and terminology, and adopt the result as institutional policy. A
licence that forbade modification would make the pack useless for the thing it
was built to do.

So you are explicitly encouraged to:

  * adapt, rewrite, shorten, extend and re-order any instrument;
  * translate it into any language;
  * embed the text directly into internal institutional policy, handbooks,
    candidature agreements, training materials and survey platforms;
  * redistribute the original or your adaptation, including commercially.

The only condition is attribution.


HOW TO ATTRIBUTE
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For an adapted instrument used internally or published, a line such as:

    Adapted from The Institutional AI Readiness Pack (Instats, 2026),
    CC BY 4.0. https://instats.org/publications/ai-readiness

For the pack as a whole, please cite it — see CITATION.cff.

You do not need to ask permission. You do not need to tell us. We would like
to hear about it, but that is a request, not a condition.


WHAT THIS LICENCE DOES NOT COVER
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1. THE INSTATS NAME AND LOGO. Trade marks and the Instats visual identity,
   including the logo files in assets/, are not licensed under CC BY 4.0. You
   may not use them to imply that Instats endorses your adaptation, or that
   your adapted document is an Instats publication. Remove the logo from
   adaptations, or make the adaptation's authorship unambiguous.

2. THE COMPANION REPORT. This pack accompanies "Responsible AI in Academic
   Research: A Competency Framework for Research Training" (Instats Policy
   Series, DOI 10.61700/t31oy23grr), which is licensed separately under
   CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This pack cites and builds on that report; it does not
   relicense it. Quoting the report remains subject to the report's own terms.

3. THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL. Where an instrument quotes or cites an external
   source, that source remains under its own licence and its own terms.


NO WARRANTY
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These instruments are provided as-is. They are professional tools, not legal
advice. An institution adopting a model policy, agreement or disclosure
standard from this pack is responsible for ensuring it complies with the laws,
regulations, funder conditions and industrial instruments applicable in its own
jurisdiction, and should have it reviewed accordingly before adoption.
