License¶

Three things meet on this site: the server software, the documentation you are reading, and the EDI data packages the server gives access to. Each has its own license.

Server code — MIT¶

The edi-mcp source code (the edi_mcp Python package, the edi-mcp command-line program, tests and build scripts) is released under the MIT License¹:

Copyright © 2026 The Regents of the University of New Mexico

The full text is in the repository's LICENSE file². In short: you may use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and sell the software, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included; the software is provided "as is", without warranty.

Documentation text — CC-BY 4.0¶

The prose, tables and examples on this site (everything under docs/ in the repository, including the OKF frontmatter) are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International³. You may share and adapt the material for any purpose, provided you give appropriate credit ("edi-mcp documentation, idss-mesa / The Regents of the University of New Mexico, CC-BY 4.0") and indicate whether changes were made. Code snippets embedded in the documentation may alternatively be used under the MIT terms above.

EDI data — per package¶

Data packages retrieved from EDI through edi-mcp are not part of this project and are not covered by either license above. Each package states its own intellectual rights in its EML metadata. EDI advocates open access but lets providers declare more restrictive terms; when a provider declares none, EDI applies a default statement based on the CC0 1.0 waiver⁴. Read the rights of each package you use, and cite it as described in Citing EDI data.

Trademarks and affiliation¶

edi-mcp is an independent project of idss-mesa at the University of New Mexico. It is not developed, endorsed or supported by the Environmental Data Initiative, the LTER Network, DataONE or the U.S. National Science Foundation. Their names belong to their respective owners; this site uses its own original artwork.