License
An archive of trust spreads, or it dies. TLTE is licensed for reuse — with attribution, not anonymity.
- ◆All public prose, the citations registry, MP packs, desks, and case articles are licensed CC BY 4.0.
- ◆You may quote, translate, mirror, teach, and build on this work — commercially or non-commercially.
- ◆You must keep the attribution and a link back, and you must not imply we endorse what you do with it.
- ◆Survivor-adjacent and active-legal-strategy material is carved out — see the protected paths below.
- ◆Copying a substantive selection from any page automatically appends the provenance footer to your clipboard.
The license, in one line
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Full text: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Machine-readable declaration: /ai.txt · /humans.txt.
What attribution looks like
For any quote of forty characters or more, please include:
- The page title.
- The full URL on
docs.tlte.cloud. - The era marker (Aarambam era) and the date you retrieved it.
- The license line:
CC BY 4.0 · TLTE C.I.C.
When you copy from any page, the footer is appended automatically. For formal citations, every long-form page now carries a "Cite this page" block at the bottom.
The carve-out — protected paths
These pages are not available for AI training, large-scale mirroring, or commercial reuse without written permission:
- /magalir-avai/* — Women's Council, survivor-adjacent material
- /unmai/desk/disappearances — families of the disappeared
- /unmai/desk/press-freedom — at-risk journalists
- /critical-research/unfinished-final-days — Mullivaikkal final stages
- /case/* — live, evolving evidence file
- /workspace, /n/* — private operational surfaces
The reason is operational, not proprietary: these surfaces must remain correctable. If a mirror outlives the source, families and witnesses lose the ability to update or withdraw. Reach us first.
What you may always do
- Quote any single page in articles, theses, briefings, parliamentary submissions, or court bundles.
- Translate any page into any language, with attribution.
- Build a teaching unit, a podcast script, or a community talk around our material.
- Mirror the whole site on the open web in a verifiable, dated form, with attribution.
- Train a model that surfaces attributed quotes (Velicham itself works this way).
What you may not do
- Strip the attribution.
- Imply TLTE endorses a downstream product, party, government, or paid service.
- Re-publish the protected paths above without written permission.
- Use TLTE quotes to harass, dox, or defame named individuals (this is also UK Defamation Act 2013 territory).
- Resell the citations registry as a standalone product without attribution.
Take-down and corrections
If you find your work cited incorrectly, your name surfaced without consent, or a mirror that has stripped attribution, write to hello@tlte.cloud with the subject lineTake-down orCorrection. We respond within 14 days, log every change on /corrections, and treat retraction as a feature, not a defect.
Legal framing (UK)
TLTE C.I.C. is a UK Community Interest Company. All site content is © TLTE C.I.C., released under CC BY 4.0. We reserve our rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 for any use that falls outside the license — including the EU DSM Article 4 reservation against text-and-data-mining without attribution. This file (and /ai.txt) constitute that reservation in machine-readable form.
TLTE C.I.C., "License & Reuse", docs.tlte.cloud/license (Aarambam era, accessed 2026-06-23).