# The marks

`.WAI™`, `WA²ISM™` and `WAISM™` are trademarks of Transaction Science, Inc.

- **`.WAI™`** is the name of the format and its toolchain, from Transaction Science.
- **`WA²ISM™`**, also written `WAISM™`, is the name of the deterministic WebAssembly
  module profile.

## What you may do without asking

The Apache License 2.0 covers the specification and the code. Section 6 of that licence
does not grant the marks. Anyone may, without asking:

- use the plain name WAI, the `.wai` file extension and every identifier the
  specification defines, in code, files, documentation and conversation;
- say accurately that a product reads or writes `.wai` files, implements the
  specification, or passes `wai conform`;
- fork and change the specification and the code, as the licence allows.

## What needs permission

- Naming a product, service, company or domain with one of the marks.
- Calling a changed specification or a fork by one of the marks.
- Implying that Transaction Science made, certified or endorses something it did not.

Write to hello@transaction.science.