mooring-spacy-en-md

A thin companion package that vendors the MIT-licensed spaCy en_core_web_md model so mooring's offline PII name/organisation detection works in PyPI-only / air-gapped environments.

Why it exists

mooring's default name-detection model (GLiNER) downloads from Hugging Face, and spaCy's own models are distributed from GitHub releases — neither reachable in a locked-down corporate network whose only package channel is an internal PyPI mirror. The en_core_web_md pipeline is MIT-licensed, so this package republishes its model directory as ordinary PyPI package data, the one channel such teams have. No Hugging Face, no GitHub, no model mirror at install time.

You don't install this directly — pip install mooring[pii-spacy] pulls it in, then set [ai.pii] name_backend = "spacy" in your mooring config.

For maintainers: vendoring the model before a release

The model bytes are not committed to git (they're ~40 MB). On a machine that can reach the model once:

pip install "spacy>=3.7,<4" en_core_web_md   # or: python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
python scripts/vendor_spacy_model.py          # exports the model into src/mooring_spacy_en_md/_model/
cd packages/mooring-spacy-en-md && uv build   # the wheel now carries the model + its license
uv publish

Keep the spacy pin in mooring's pii-spacy extra compatible with the model's spaCy version (the vendor script prints it). The model's own license/attribution ships inside the vendored _model/ directory (its meta.json).