Legal & Policies
Legal information and public policies
This section provides legal information and public policies relating to the LSN Foundation website, Foundation-controlled material, and other public resources within the scope stated by each policy.
Separate policies address privacy, website terms, licensing, and responsible security disclosure.
Legal & Policy Directory
Privacy
Information about privacy practices associated with the LSN Foundation website and its public-facing services.
Terms of Use
Terms governing access to and use of the LSN Foundation website and its publicly available content.
Licensing
Licensing information for canonical documents, Foundation publications, articles, website material, and other content where applicable.
Security Disclosure
Information for reporting security vulnerabilities affecting LSN Foundation web infrastructure or public services.
Scope
Foundation Website
The policies in this section apply to the LSN Foundation's public website and Foundation-controlled material to the extent specified within each individual policy.
Individual policies should be read according to their stated scope rather than assumed to apply automatically to every component of the wider Lattice Semantic Nexus ecosystem.
Wider Ecosystem
Lattice Core, the LSN Foundation, the Lattice Research Institute, and Lattice Community Groups perform distinct functions within the wider Lattice Semantic Nexus ecosystem.
External ecosystem websites and services may maintain their own legal terms, privacy information, licensing conditions, and security policies.
Canonical Documents & Legal Policies
Different Functions
The Foundation's legal and policy pages are separate from the canonical Lattice Core documentation framework.
LCGD governs the governance framework and conditions of change. LCAD establishes the architecture. LCStD formalises standards and conformance requirements. LCSpD provides detailed specification. LCED explains and contextualises canonical material. LCAAD maps the architecture and canonical corpus without substantive authority over the material mapped.
Website legal policies instead address matters such as use of the Foundation website, privacy, licensing, and security disclosure.
Canonical Authority Remains Separate
Legal and policy pages do not replace, redefine, or acquire the subject-matter authority of the canonical Lattice Core documents.
Readers seeking governance, architectural, standards, conformance, specification, explanatory, or corpus-mapping material should refer to the applicable canonical document record.
Public Material & Licensing
Different Forms of Public Material
The Foundation website provides access to or information about several forms of public material, including canonical documents, official Foundation publications and announcements, articles, and general website content.
These content classes serve different purposes and should not be assumed to share the same documentary status, authority, or licensing conditions.
Do Not Assume a Common Licence
Availability through the Foundation website does not, by itself, establish that every document or item of content is released under the same licence.
Where material carries document-specific or item-specific licensing information, that information should be read together with the Foundation's general licensing policy.
Security
Responsible Disclosure
Security vulnerabilities affecting Foundation-controlled web infrastructure should be reported through the Foundation's published security disclosure process.
The security page provides the human-readable disclosure information for the site.
security.txt
Machine-readable security disclosure information is also
published through the standard security.txt
location for this domain.
External Websites
The LSN Foundation website may link to external websites, articles, repositories, ecosystem components, publications, and third-party services. Those destinations operate outside this website and may apply their own terms, privacy practices, licensing conditions, and security policies.
Users should review the applicable policies of an external service when leaving the Foundation website.
Legal & Policy Enquiries
Legal Enquiries
Questions concerning the Foundation's legal information, licensing, or public policies can be directed to the Foundation's legal contact channel.
Security Reports
Potential security vulnerabilities should follow the dedicated security disclosure information rather than the general legal enquiry route.
Legal Directory
Privacy
Privacy information relating to the Foundation website and applicable public services.
Licensing
Information concerning licensing and reuse of applicable Foundation-controlled and Foundation-distributed material.
Security Disclosure
Responsible disclosure information for security vulnerabilities affecting Foundation-controlled systems.