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BeCoMe
Copyright 2025-2026 Ekaterina Kuzmina

Required Notice: Copyright 2025-2026 Ekaterina Kuzmina (https://github.com/caitlon/BeCoMe)
Required Notice: Work that uses this software should cite it. See CITATION.cff.

Licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. See LICENSE for the terms.
Commercial use is not permitted without a separate written licence from the author.


WHAT IS COVERED

Ekaterina Kuzmina is the author of the work in this repository: the BeCoMe library, the
FastAPI backend, the React application, the test suites, the documentation, the deployment
configuration and the tooling. She wrote it at the Faculty of Economics and Management,
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Two sets of files are exceptions, listed below.


THE METHOD THIS SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTS

The BeCoMe (Best-Compromise Mean) method is not the work of this author. Ivan Vrana,
Jan Tyrychtr and Martin Pelikan published it:

  Vrana, I., Tyrychtr, J., & Pelikan, M. (2021). BeCoMe: Easy-to-implement optimized
  method for best-compromise group decision making: Flood-prevention and COVID-19 case
  studies. Environmental Modelling & Software, 136, 104953.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104953

Copyright covers expression rather than ideas, so the licence above applies to this source
code and makes no claim over the method, which anyone remains free to implement. What those
authors are owed is citation, and this file gives it.


THIRD-PARTY CODE IN THIS REPOSITORY

The 23 files under frontend/src/components/ui/, together with frontend/src/lib/utils.ts and
frontend/src/hooks/use-toast.ts, are shadcn/ui component sources generated by its CLI, as
frontend/components.json records. They are MIT licensed and their notice is reproduced here
because they carry none of their own:

  MIT License. Copyright (c) 2023 shadcn

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
  software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
  without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
  publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
  to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
  substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
  PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE
  FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
  OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
  DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

api/data/disposable_email_domains.txt is a hand-maintained list of throwaway-mail providers
collected from public sources, as the docstring of api/services/email_policy.py records. A
list of domain names is fact rather than authorship.


CASE-STUDY DATA AND REFERENCE VALUES

The three expert panels in examples/data/ (budget, floods, pendlers) and the expected
results in tests/reference/ originate from the method authors' own Excel workbook. This
repository reproduces them so the test suite can check its own results against theirs.
It matches to within 0.001 on every run. Credit for that data belongs to the method's
authors, not to this author.


BUNDLED TYPEFACES

api/assets/fonts/ carries four TrueType files, embedded into every PDF the export
endpoint produces. All three families are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1,
and the licence text ships beside them:

  Inter-Regular.ttf, Inter-SemiBold.ttf   Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors
                                          github.com/rsms/inter, Inter-OFL.txt
  JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf               Copyright 2020 The JetBrains Mono
                                          Project Authors
                                          github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono,
                                          JetBrainsMono-OFL.txt
  PlayfairDisplay.ttf                     Copyright 2017 The Playfair Display Project
                                          Authors, with Reserved Font Name
                                          "Playfair Display"
                                          github.com/clauseggers/Playfair-Display
                                          (build taken from github.com/google/fonts),
                                          PlayfairDisplay-OFL.txt

The files are the upstream releases, unmodified. That matters for the reserved name:
OFL 1.1 forbids a modified version from carrying it, and subsetting the file before
shipping would make one. reportlab builds its own subset in memory when it writes a PDF,
which is embedding rather than redistribution, so the shipped files stay original.

These replaced DejaVu Sans, which this project previously bundled without recording it
here -- an omission this section also settles, since the Bitstream Vera licence it ships
under asks for the same acknowledgement.