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The terms under which this site publishes

axilog.io publishes the Axioma framework specifications, reference implementations, and documentation under open licences declared on each artefact. This page records the terms under which the material is published, who operates the site, what readers may and may not do with the material, and the safety-critical disclaimer that applies to specifications referencing industrial standards.

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axilog.io is operated by Spey Systems Ltd, a private limited company registered in Scotland. Full operator details, including the registered company number and the registered office, are at /legal/.

The site publishes the Axioma framework — an open specification, reference architecture, and substrate library for verifiable execution in regulated AI deployment contexts. The framework targets safety-critical and regulated industries (aerospace, medical devices, automotive, EU AI Act scope) and references the relevant industrial standards. The published material is research- grade in the sense described in the safety-critical disclaimer below.

The Axioma framework specifications are published for technical evaluation, peer review, and academic reference. They are not currently certified by any regulatory body.

The specifications reference industrial standards including DO-178C, IEC 62304, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and MISRA-C:2012. These references describe what the framework targets; they do not represent endorsement by the standards bodies that publish those standards, nor any form of certification against them.

Anyone using the framework, its specifications, or its reference implementations for safety-critical deployment is responsible for independent verification, formal review, and obtaining their own certifications under the applicable regulatory regime. Spey Systems Ltd does not warrant the framework's fitness for any particular purpose, including any safety-critical or regulated-industry purpose.

The framework's substantive value — verifiability rather than trust, deterministic computation, cryptographic audit trails — is published openly so that downstream verification is possible. The licence and accompanying provenance surfaces describe what the framework guarantees and how those guarantees can be reproduced; the certification question is separate, downstream, and the responsibility of the party deploying the framework.

Readers may visit, read, and reference the published material under the licences declared at /licence/. No registration is required; no payment is taken; no clickwrap agreement is imposed. Use of the site is taken as awareness of these terms, not formal acceptance.

Automated access is permitted and indeed encouraged via /robots.txt, /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, and the public specification repository at github.com/SpeyTech/axioma-spec. The framework is published openly because open consumption is the point; LLM crawlers, dependency analysers, citation tools, and standards-mapping tooling are all welcome.

The following remain out of scope:

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Source code published as part of the Axioma framework is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Documentation, specifications, and prose are licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. The full licensing position, including the AGPL §11 patent grant covering UK patents GB2521625.0 and GB2522369.4, lives at /licence/.

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The framework and its specifications are published "as is", without warranty of any kind, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Sections 15 and 16 of AGPL-3.0 (disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability) apply in full to the software components; equivalent disclaimers in CC-BY-SA-4.0 apply to the documentation components. See /licence/ for the canonical statement of these positions.

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These terms are reviewed at least annually, and amended when the underlying publishing position changes materially. The "Last reviewed" date at the top of the page records the most recent revision. Earlier versions of these terms can be requested by contacting Spey Systems Ltd at security@speytech.com.

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