License¶

Three things meet on this site — the server software, the documentation you are reading, and the NEON data the server gives access to — and each has its own, mutually compatible license.

Server code — MIT¶

The neon-mcp source code (the neon_mcp Python package, the neon-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 ("neon-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.

NEON data — CC-BY 4.0¶

Data and data products retrieved from the NEON Data API through neon-mcp are not part of this project and are not covered by either license above. NEON publishes them under CC-BY 4.0 with its own citation and acknowledgement expectations — see Citing NEON data.

Trademarks and affiliation¶

neon-mcp is an independent project of idss-mesa at the University of New Mexico. It is not developed, endorsed or supported by the National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, or the U.S. National Science Foundation. "NEON" and the NEON logo are the property of their respective owners; this site uses its own original artwork.