Akashic — Content License
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Original editorial content, narrative prose, the 13-type cluster typology and
its assignments, computed derived data (cosine-similarity vectors,
population-weighted tier aggregates, generated headlines and narratives), and
all original documentation published on akashic.app, tiers.akashic.app, and
via the bulk dataset endpoints are licensed under the

  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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
    license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any
    reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor
    endorses you or your use.

Recommended citation:

  Akashic — Political Geography Database
  Akashic Intelligence
  https://akashic.app/
  Accessed [date]

Underlying source data retains its own license. See ATTRIBUTION.txt for the
per-source breakdown (MIT Election Lab, ICPSR, US Census ACS, ASARB 2020
US Religion Census, US Census TIGER/Line, Wikimedia Commons).

Embeddable widget code (under /widget/) is licensed separately under MIT.
See /widget/LICENSE.txt.

This license was ratified 2026-05-20. See docs/LICENSE_DECISION.md in the
source repository for rationale.