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Licensing

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

APM uses different licenses for software and general documentation. The scope below applies to APM-owned material; an existing third-party license or notice takes precedence for that material.

Software: Apache-2.0

The Apache License 2.0 applies to APM-owned software, including:

  • CLI source, tests, scripts, build tooling and website implementation code.
  • Bundled packages and agent primitives, including skills, prompts, instructions, agents, workflows and their supporting resources. Markdown used as an agent primitive is software, not general documentation.
  • Code and configuration examples, including examples embedded in documentation. An example's declared package license is illustrative, not a license grant for the surrounding APM project.
  • The software-facing OpenAPM specification in docs/src/content/docs/specs/openapm-*.md, its schemas, requirement manifests and conformance fixtures, including published copies.

The root LICENSE remains the default for APM-owned material outside the documentation scope below, unless a file states otherwise.

General documentation: CC-BY-4.0

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license applies to human-facing documentation prose, including:

  • Root Markdown documents and human-facing README.md / README.mdx files.
  • Guides, tutorials and explanatory reference pages under docs/src/content/docs/, and their rendered documentation-site content.

The software, examples and OpenAPM artifacts listed above are excluded from this documentation grant, even when stored in Markdown or displayed on the same page. This is a scope split, not a choice between two licenses for the same material. Website dependencies, fonts and other third-party assets retain their own terms.

When sharing documentation, retain supplied attribution and notices, link to CC-BY-4.0 and the source where reasonably practicable, and indicate changes. For example: "Adapted from the APM documentation, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, CC-BY-4.0; changes: [describe changes]", with links to the source page and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The full license governs; this example adds no conditions. Neither license grants permission to use trademarks or logos to imply endorsement.

Contributions, historical releases and third-party material

Contributions use the license applicable to the material being contributed. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the contribution process.

Previously published MIT releases remain under their original terms. The historical MIT notice and existing third-party attributions are retained in NOTICE; this transition does not erase those notices or relicense third-party dependencies.

NOTICE covers the direct Python runtime dependencies listed by its generator, not every transitive, vendored, native, website or build-tool component. Redistributors must assess the material in their actual distribution and retain its applicable licenses and notices.