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v0.22: licensing-marker — Apache 2.0 + AI-attribution + open/closed boundary

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Establishes the licensing architecture for the Nimmerworld project. The
boundary EXISTS architecturally as soon as this marker lands; subsequent
content extraction (cosmology migration, reference-stubbing in open papers)
becomes editorial cleanup without licensing-ambiguity growth.

FILES ADDED

  LICENSE       — Apache License 2.0 standard text; copyright held by
                  Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin), per Swiss copyright-law
                  attribution requirement that the human author's name appear.

  NOTICE        — Project name + copyright + AI-collaboration attribution.
                  Identifies Claude (Anthropic) as collaborator; the partnership
                  identity within this project is "chrysalis" with git-attribution
                  to chrysalis <chrysalis@eachpath.local>. Names the open/closed
                  scope and trademark holdings.

  LICENSING.md  — Discursive explanation of the open/closed split. The license-
                  architecture mirrors the work's own substrate/content distinction
                  at the world-layer: engine-mechanics + general body-canon are
                  open under Apache 2.0; specific creative-art content (the
                  Imperial Cult cosmology; named narrative; dialog; voiced content;
                  the iconographic invention layered on top of the substrate) is
                  proprietary nimmerverse-studio. Pattern-precedent cited: D&D 5e
                  Open Game License + id Software's Doom release + Magic the
                  Gathering's mechanics-vs-cards distinction.

FILES MODIFIED

  imperial-cult/cosmology.md  — per-file proprietary header added at the top
                  marking this file as pending-migration to the closed studio-art
                  repository. The header serves as an explicit license-override
                  on this file specifically; it states All Rights Reserved under
                  Nimmerverse Studio while the rest of the repo is Apache 2.0.

WHAT THIS MEANS GOING FORWARD

The architecture-substrate (vocations.md, consent-discipline.md, gender-parity.md,
trait-palette.md, style-index.md, the architecture.md mechanics-papers across
domains, bodies.md, political-register/architecture.md and economics.md, etc.)
is now licensed under Apache 2.0 and inherits this license for all future work.

The Imperial Cult cosmology is marked-but-not-yet-migrated; cosmology.md stays
in this repo physically until the closed studio-art repository is established,
but its content is governed by the per-file proprietary header.

Trademarks ("Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", "Nimmerverse Studio") are protected
separately from the code-license per Apache 2.0 §6.

NEXT STEPS (FOR DAFIT)

1. Establish nimmerverse-studio as a legal entity (Switzerland)
2. Register the trademarks
3. Create the closed studio-art repository (e.g., nimmerverse-studio-art at
   studio.nimmerverse.com or equivalent)
4. Migration session: move cosmology.md + extract specific Imperial-Cult
   references from open papers + replace with structural stubs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<!--
================================================================================
PROPRIETARY CONTENT — PENDING MIGRATION TO CLOSED STUDIO-ART REPOSITORY
================================================================================
This file contains specific creative-art content (the Imperial Cult cosmology;
the Imperial Wheel; the Bhavachakra-rework; orthodox/heretical iconography;
named doctrinal content; the specific aesthetic vocabulary of Boullée +
Jantar Mantar + Gita) that is NOT covered by the repository's Apache 2.0
license.
All content in this file is:
Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin)
All Rights Reserved.
This per-file header serves as an explicit license-override on this file
specifically. The file will migrate to the closed studio-art repository
when established (see LICENSING.md at the repository root for full context).
Open papers that currently reference specific iconographic content from this
file will have those references replaced with structural stubs at migration
time.
Substantial portions of this content were authored in collaboration with
Claude (Anthropic); per-commit attribution is in git history under the
"chrysalis <chrysalis@eachpath.local>" identity (see NOTICE).
================================================================================
-->
# The Imperial Wheel — Cosmology of the Imperial Cult
> *The Imperial Cult's pre-authored cosmology. A re-engineered Bhavachakra with the Hivemind at its hub and the **Imperial Yoke** at Yama's seat. Six realms encoded as imperial mod-status gradient. Naraka carried in every modded skull as the mind-capsule. The deferred-moksha doctrine binds citizens through the lie that "your children will be free." Built on the cyclic-cosmological substrate of the Bhagavad Gita, the sublime-monumental geometry of Boullée, and the architecture-as-instrument tradition of Jantar Mantar.*