faa-ams-vv pack — content licence
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This pack is derived from:
    FAA AMS Lifecycle Verification and Validation Guidelines
    Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Version 3.0 (April 2017)

Source licence: Public Domain (US Government work)  (tier 1 — see ../../docs/SOURCE-VETTING.md)
No source-material download link is published (see ../../docs/LICENSING.md).

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SOURCE TERMS (United States Government work — public domain)
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The source document is a work of the United States Government, prepared by
officers or employees of the Federal Aviation Administration as part of their
official duties. Under 17 U.S.C. § 105, copyright protection under U.S. law is
not available for any work of the United States Government. The work is therefore
in the public domain in the United States.

This means:
  • Commercial use is permitted.
  • No attribution is legally required (attribution to the FAA is a courtesy).
  • No non-commercial restriction applies.
  • No share-alike obligation applies.
  • There is no trademark or licence text imposed by the source on reuse of the
    work's content.

Attribution to the FAA is provided as a courtesy. The FAA does not endorse this
pack, and reference to the FAA does not imply endorsement.

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OBLIGATIONS CARRIED FORWARD / CAVEATS
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1. CMMI definitions (third-party copyright). The source guideline draws its
   formal definitions of "verification" and "validation" from CMMI for
   Development, Version 1.2 (Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute,
   2006), a separately copyrighted process model. This pack PARAPHRASES those
   concepts throughout and reproduces NO verbatim CMMI text. Any CMMI wording
   should be cited to the SEI, not copied from this pack.

2. Policy-snapshot caveat. The source's V&V phase tables (Tables 1–6) reflect
   FAA AMS policy as of April 2017 and are expressly superseded by current FAA
   phase guidelines and templates. Reproduced table content (criteria,
   responsible offices, form/order numbers, organizational names) is illustrative
   of the model, not live regulatory authority.

3. No third-party material is reproduced. This pack contains only synthesized,
   paraphrased reference notes — no source figures, tables, or extended verbatim
   passages.

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NOTE: This licence governs the CONTENT of this pack and is independent of the
repository's MIT licence (which covers tooling only).