Patent Policy (Defensive Non-Assertion)

This project is licensed under MIT in LICENSE.md.

In addition, for any patent claims that are necessarily infringed by using this project as distributed by the project maintainers, the maintainers grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license to:

• make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise run this project
• modify this project and distribute your modifications

Defensive Termination

This patent license terminates automatically for any party that, directly or indirectly, initiates or voluntarily joins a patent infringement claim against:

• the project maintainers, or
• any user, distributor, or contributor of this project,

where the claim alleges that this project, or a contribution to this project, infringes a patent.

Scope

• This patent grant applies only to patent claims controlled by project maintainers that are necessarily infringed by this project or a contribution.
• It does not grant rights to patents for unrelated technologies or uses.
• Copyright permissions remain governed by the MIT license.

Trademark

No trademark rights are granted by this file.

Notes

This file states project policy and intent for defensive patent use while keeping broad open-source usability under MIT.