diff --git a/ATTRIBUTION.md b/ATTRIBUTION.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c6b14f --- /dev/null +++ b/ATTRIBUTION.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Attribution and contribution boundary + +Menie is derived from [Meetily](https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily), the local-first AI meeting assistant maintained by Zackriya Solutions and its contributors. The repository retains the upstream MIT license and Zackriya Solutions copyright notice. + +## Upstream foundation + +Meetily provides the core Tauri/Next.js/Rust desktop architecture, audio capture and transcription pipeline, local summarization approach, platform build machinery, and a substantial portion of the user interface and native implementation. + +## Current derivative work + +The current Menie tree contains additional local-only policy checks, privacy and health reporting, transcript evidence retrieval, review artifacts, bundle integrity and encrypted handoff behavior, and related quality-gate work described in `CHANGELOG.md`. + +The repository was published as a single squashed commit and still contains inherited Meetily naming in workflows. Until a base revision and change inventory are fully verified, public descriptions must call Menie a derivative and must not attribute the complete application to Suleman Ahmed. + +Future changes should use normal issues, branches, pull requests, and releases so the downstream contribution record is independently auditable. + +Menie is not affiliated with or endorsed by Zackriya Solutions or the Meetily project. + diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fe20c52..31e3a24 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ +> **Provenance:** Menie is an experimental derivative of [Meetily](https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily) by Zackriya Solutions. The upstream MIT copyright is preserved. See [ATTRIBUTION.md](ATTRIBUTION.md) before citing or contributing to this repository. + --- ## 🌟 What is Menie?