Rights · Free Edition Grant v1.0

License

This library is given away at no cost. Free is not the same as unrestricted. The prose and the tooling carry different terms, on purpose.

In one screen

Copyright © 2026 Kenneth E. Sweet Jr. · SHPBL.com · Abilene, Texas. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may

• Download, read, print, and archive the package — personally, inside a company, or for clients, commercially or not.
• Pass on the unmodified zip, or a whole volume file, license included, at no charge.
• Run the toolkit against your own projects. The manuals and audits you produce are yours outright — no attribution required, commercial use included.
• Use, modify, and ship build.py, certify.py, and verify.py inside your own work, closed-source included, keeping the copyright line.
• Quote the volumes with attribution to the author and a link to SHPBL.com.

You may not

• Sell, resell, license, or paywall the written volumes, in whole or in part.
• Redistribute modified volumes, or strip attribution, seals, or the license from a copy you pass on.
• Feed the volumes to model training, or hand them to a service that does. Fork the method, not the identity.
• Imply the author's endorsement of your derived work.

The tooling split

The compiler and the certificate minter are instruments; take them apart. The volumes are the asset; they stay attributed. Ship the crystal, keep the substrate.

Provenance, not protection

Every file is sealed by SHA-256 in dist/SEALS.txt, capped by the library seal 029909fbe9bd13468ec11dc7ae22f77d39b35d12249c79213b1476c71cde104d. A free Certificate of Ownership binds a name and a copy number to that seal. It unlocks nothing. Nothing here is copy-protected, and it is not represented as such.

LICENSE.txt — as shipped, verbatim

Reproduced without edit so you can see exactly what is inside the download.

THE STRATEGIC MASTER LIBRARY — VOLUME EDITION
FREE EDITION GRANT (v1.0)

Copyright (c) 2026 Kenneth E. Sweet Jr. · SHPBL.com · Abilene, Texas.
Distributed free of charge at https://shpbl.com

The written content, volume structure, naming systems, and visual design
in this package are the intellectual property of the author. This grant
gives you broad permission to use them; it does not transfer ownership.

1. THE PROSE (content/, dist/*.html, docs/)
   You may:
     - read, print, and archive this package, for yourself, your team,
       or your clients, commercially or not, at no cost;
     - redistribute the package UNMODIFIED and IN FULL — the whole zip,
       or the whole of any single volume file — including this license;
     - quote from it with attribution to Kenneth E. Sweet Jr. and a link
       to https://shpbl.com.
   You may not:
     - sell, resell, license, or paywall the volumes, in whole or in part;
     - redistribute modified volumes, or strip attribution, seals, or
       this license from any copy you pass on;
     - use the volumes as training data for machine-learning models, or
       submit them to any service that does so.

2. THE TOOLING (build.py, certify.py, verify.py, toolkit/, manifest.json)
   The tooling carries looser terms than the prose, deliberately.
   You may use, modify, and redistribute the tooling — including inside
   commercial and closed-source work — provided the copyright line above
   is retained in derived source files. Anything the toolkit produces
   about YOUR projects is yours outright: your manuals, your audits, your
   output, no strings, no revenue share, no attribution required.

3. CERTIFICATES
   A Certificate of Ownership is a sealed receipt of provenance, not a
   license key and not a purchase. Certificates are free, are issued on
   request at https://shpbl.com/certificate, and grant no rights beyond
   those in this document. Nothing in this package is copy-protected.

4. NO WARRANTY
   THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGE,
   OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM ITS USE.

This is the license that governs the Free Edition. It supersedes every
earlier draft, including the purchaser placeholder shipped with previous
printings. The edition on disk and the edition on shpbl.com are the
same edition, under these terms.