Intellectual property · The licence obligations · Element

The compliance position

Whether the obligations are actually being met.

The part

What it is

Attribution requirements are the most commonly breached and the easiest to satisfy, which is a poor combination.

Where compliance is unclear, that is a finding rather than a nuisance — the position tends to be resolved by whoever discovers it.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.