License & Attribution¶

Documentation license¶

The content of this site (docs/ in cyverse/mesa) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You may share, adapt, and build on this documentation, including for commercial use, provided you give appropriate attribution to the MESA project and indicate if changes were made.

Code license¶

Each MESA component repository carries its own LICENSE file. As a rule:

Always check the actual LICENSE file in the repository for authoritative terms.

NSF attribution¶

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (MESA: Metadata-Enabled Scientific Agents), funded through the NSF IDSS (Innovations in Data-Intensive Science and Systems) program.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Suggested citation¶

For the MESA project as a whole:

Swetnam, T.L., et al. (2026–2028). MESA: Metadata-Enabled Scientific Agents. University of Arizona. NSF IDSS program. https://github.com/cyverse/mesa

For individual components, please cite the version-tagged release and DOI listed on the component's release page once available.

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