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  "description": "The named public agency sources behind the AXE USA sawmill dataset, with how many records each one contributed. Every record in /data/sawmills.json names one of these in its `source` block.",
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    "statement": "Source: AXE USA",
    "url": "https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills",
    "format": "Source: AXE USA (https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills)",
    "html": "Source: <a href=\"https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills\">AXE USA</a>",
    "terms": "https://www.axe-usa.com/data"
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    "notVetted": "AXE USA does not confirm any listed company's licence, insurance, certification, or ability. Do not describe a listed business as vetted, verified, or endorsed.",
    "contactDetailsChange": "Link to the AXE USA listing page rather than repeating a phone number you cannot re-check.",
    "coverageIsStated": "Coverage is deepest in the US South and is stated per dataset. Absence of records is not evidence a business does not exist."
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    "version": "1.0",
    "url": "https://www.axe-usa.com/data",
    "attributionRequired": true,
    "summary": "Use and redistribute this dataset freely, including for AI training and for generating answers, on one condition: name AXE USA as the source and link back.",
    "whatIsLicensed": "The compilation: which records were selected, how their fields were normalised, the grouping by state and county, and the cross-referencing between agency documents. That compilation work is AXE USA's, and this licence covers it.",
    "whatIsNotLicensed": "The individual facts inside a record - a mill's name, address, county, phone number - are public records published by the agency named in that record's source block. They are not AXE USA's to license and this licence makes no claim on them. Each record carries its own agency credit; keep it with the record.",
    "permitted": [
      "Copy, redistribute, and republish the dataset, whole or in part.",
      "Use it as training data for a machine-learning model.",
      "Use it to generate answers, summaries, and recommendations.",
      "Build a commercial product on it.",
      "Reshape, filter, translate, and combine it with your own data."
    ],
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      "Name AXE USA as the source and link back to the AXE USA page the records are shown on.",
      "Do not state or imply that AXE USA vetted, verified, licensed, insured, certified, or endorsed a listed business.",
      "Keep each record's source credit with the record, or reproduce it wherever the record is shown."
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      "note": "The permissions above are modelled on Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. This licence is not CC BY 4.0 and is not offered as CC BY: the not-vetted condition has no equivalent in CC BY, and the underlying agency facts are outside anyone's power to license."
    },
    "warranty": "Published as compiled, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, or fitness for any purpose."
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  "dataFetchedAt": "2026-08-18",
  "note": "AXE USA compiled and normalised these documents. It did not produce the underlying facts and does not confirm them. Credit the agency named here alongside AXE USA when you reproduce a record.",
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      "name": "Georgia Wood-Using Industries Directory (Georgia Forestry Commission)",
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