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License and IP Notice

Mars® Protocol — License and IP Notice

Proprietary and Confidential Copyright © 2026 Causum. All rights reserved.


Ownership

The Mars® Protocol and all materials in this repository are the proprietary work product of Causum.

Causum owns exclusively:

  • The Mars® name and registered trademark
  • The Mars® specification as a whole and each of its layers individually: domain modeling (§01 Juno), base analysis (§02a Jupiter), integrated analysis (§02b-i through §02b-iii Jupiter), elevated analysis (§02c Jupiter), and artifacts (§03-i through §03-iv Minerva)
  • All schemas, registry templates, conformance checklists, and appendices in this repository
  • The Capitoline Triad protocol structure and the assignment of its members to specification layers

Grant of access

Access to this repository or any document within it does not constitute a license to practice, implement, sublicense, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on any mechanism described herein.


Licensing

Implementation of the mechanisms described in this specification requires a valid, executed license agreement with Causum. A licensee may implement only those layers expressly identified in their license agreement.

Inquiries regarding licensing: licensing@causum.com.


Patent rights

Multiple patent applications covering mechanisms in this specification are pending. Publication of this specification does not constitute a waiver of any patent right, trade secret right, or other intellectual property right, whether or not a patent application has been filed. See the patent notice.


No warranties

This specification is provided for evaluation purposes only. Causum makes no warranty, express or implied, regarding the completeness, accuracy, or fitness for any particular purpose of this specification or any mechanism described herein.


Mars® is a registered trademark of Causum.