Transaction Science Open Standards
Copyright (c) 2026 Transaction Science, Inc.

This repository contains three open standards. The Apache License,
Version 2.0 at the root applies to:

  openpay/     — the OpenPay reference payment-acceptance stack.

The following subdirectories are licensed differently. See each
subdirectory's LICENSE file for the applicable terms:

  smart-byte/  — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
  eoc/         — Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

The wire format and the right to fork are public. Transaction Science
writes the reference implementation and runs the optional hosted
services — the protocols themselves are owned by no one.

See CHARTER.md for the stewardship pattern that applies to every
standard in this repository.