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Copyright, Licences and Attributions
Koruya's own software, design and content belong to Koruya. The app uses open-source software and open data sources; each one's licence and credit is shown below and in the app.
1. Koruya's rights
The software of the app, the web app and the site, the interface design, the logo, the name "Koruya" and the guides and lessons written by the Koruya team are protected on behalf of operator details (legal name, address, registration number) will be published soon. The terms of use give you the right to use the app for personal use.
2. Open-source software
- The licence texts of every open-source package in the mobile app are listed in full in the app under Settings → Licences and About → Open-source licences (the Flutter licence page).
- Emergency number and phone number rules are derived from Google libphonenumber data (Apache License 2.0); its licence text is on the same screen.
- The dependencies of the web app and the site go through a licence check at build time (a list of allowed licences); fonts are served from Koruya's own server under their own licences.
3. Map data
- OpenStreetMap: the map, roads and critical places © OpenStreetMap contributors; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. The credit is always visible on the map.
- Protomaps Basemaps: the schema and tools of the offline vector map packs (BSD-3-Clause); the data itself is OpenStreetMap.
- GeoNames: the city directory and place search on the phone; CC BY 4.0 (geonames.org).
- Assembly points and critical places are community data; they have not been verified as official.
4. Hazard, weather and news data
- USGS: earthquake data; US public domain.
- EMSC-CSEM: earthquake data; CC BY 4.0.
- GDACS (European Commission JRC / UN OCHA): disaster alerts; CC BY 4.0. GDACS alerts are automated estimates.
- NASA EONET and NASA news feeds: NASA data use terms.
- MET Norway: weather forecast and warnings; Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0 / CC BY 4.0, credit: MET Norway.
- NOAA, NWS, the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, GeoNet: official warning feeds; the agencies' terms of use.
- GDELT Project: news search; used with credit.
- Only in builds where the feature is on: NASA FIRMS (wildfires), Open-Meteo and Copernicus (CAMS, GloFAS) (CC BY 4.0), MeteoAlarm, OpenTopoMap (CC BY-SA), Esri (provider terms), World Health Organization outbreak news.
- AFAD: AFAD data is not used in the app today [source permission pending]; AFAD is named only in guides as an official source. Koruya is not an app of AFAD or of any public authority.
5. Where the credits are shown
In the app, Settings → Data sources and licences lists every source that build really uses, with its kind (official, estimate, satellite, community) and licence; the OpenStreetMap credit is visible on the map screen. On the site and in the web app the source is named on the relevant pages.
6. Reporting an infringement
If you think content or a credit infringes your rights: legal@koruya.app.