gao-cost pack — content licence
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This pack is derived from:
    GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide (GAO-20-195G)
    GAO, GAO-20-195G (March 2020)

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).

SOURCE TERMS (public domain — US Government work)
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Works prepared by officers and employees of the U.S. Government as part of their
official duties are not subject to copyright protection within the United States
(17 U.S.C. § 105) and are in the public domain. The GAO Cost Estimating and
Assessment Guide (GAO-20-195G) is such a work. It may be freely copied, adapted,
redistributed, and used for any purpose, including commercially, with no royalty
and no permission required.

Obligations carried forward into this pack:
  - Attribution: NOT required. (GAO is credited as a courtesy in PACK.yaml.)
  - Non-commercial restriction: NONE.
  - Share-alike: NONE — pack content does not inherit a copyleft licence and is
    released under the repository's MIT licence.
  - Trademark: "GAO" and the agency's name/seal are not licensed by this notice;
    do not imply GAO endorsement of this pack.

THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL CAVEAT
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The source Guide names, cites, and in places embeds third-party material that is
NOT public domain — including the EIA-748 EVM standard, MIL-STD-881D, the ICEAA
Cost Estimating Body of Knowledge, AACEI and PMI standards, and example tables
attributed to ©MCR, LLC and ©ICEAA. This pack references and paraphrases such
material in original words only and reproduces none of it verbatim; no third-party
licence is conveyed by, or required for, this pack. Anyone needing the underlying
standards must obtain them from their respective publishers.

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