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Attribution and Provenance in Didactopus

A Didactopus pack that is built from external educational material should carry:

source identity
source URL
creator / publisher
license identifier
license URL
adaptation status
attribution text
exclusion notes
retrieval date

Why both machine-readable and human-readable artifacts?

Machine-readable provenance supports:

validation
export pipelines
automated NOTICE/ATTRIBUTION generation
future audit tools

Human-readable attribution supports:

repository inspection
redistribution review
transparency for maintainers and learners

Recommended policy

Every ingested source record should answer:

What is the source?
Who published it?
Under what license?
Was the source adapted, excerpted, transformed, or only referenced?
Are any subcomponents excluded from the main license?
What attribution text should be shown downstream?