Plugin data use and licensing

Browse, evaluate, and cite

Personal browsing and internal evaluation for work are welcome. Search engines and AI answer services may index public pages and provide attributed answers, limited excerpts, and individual score references linking to the canonical HOL page, even when the discovery service is commercially operated. Use our published badges and embeds under their applicable terms.

Contact us before collecting or reusing data

Unless a separate license or applicable legal right permits it, prior written permission is required for systematic or bulk extraction (including accumulation through small requests), mirrors, resale, redistribution, commercial data products, substitute scoring services, and commercial model training or persistent data corpora. Search and answer indexing under the permission above is distinct from building a reusable commercial dataset.

Request a data license with your organization, intended use, fields, volume, refresh frequency, and any redistribution or training plans. Scope, access, and any fees must be agreed in writing. An inquiry does not authorize use or payment.

Open licenses and independent work remain valid

The HOL Plugin Security dataset is separately released under Apache 2.0, including its commercial permissions. These terms do not revoke that license or license additional live-service data. Upstream plugin licenses, independently obtained facts, independent scoring, and rights that cannot lawfully be restricted remain unaffected.

Rights and agreements have limits

We reserve only rights we actually hold. Facts, ideas, methods, and individual numeric scores are not automatically protected by copyright because HOL publishes them. Any protection for original expression, compilations, or databases depends on applicable law. Lawful independent research and competition remain permitted.

This notice, API headers, and robots.txt alone do not establish acceptance of a contract. Contractual restrictions require a valid agreement with the notice and assent required by applicable law. A policy violation alone does not establish copyright infringement or a computer-access offense.

Licensed feeds, exports, enhanced API access, or updates that we agree to supply require a separate written agreement affirmatively accepted by authorized representatives of both parties. That agreement identifies the material or service, permitted uses, limits, duration, accepted terms and version, and any fees. Posting a policy update does not by itself amend an existing agreement or revoke an open license.

Respect access safeguards

Follow robots.txt restrictions, published request limits, Retry-After instructions, and access controls. Do not evade restrictions or overload the service. A robots.txt allowance permits crawling; it does not grant a commercial data license. Abusive access may be throttled or blocked.