ARC Open Foundation
Copyright 2026 Ricky (author and inventor of ARC / VALIS)

This product includes software developed for the ARC Open Foundation
release. The full text of the authorship and provenance record for this
release is in PROVENANCE.md; the per-file digests of the released bytes
are in MANIFEST.sha256.

TRADEMARKS — NOT LICENSED

The Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE) does not grant permission
to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of
the Licensor (License §6). The names ΛRC and <_VΛLIS — and the names
"ARC Network", "ARC Database", and "ARC Language" as product names —
are marks of the author. They are not licensed by this release.

CONFORMANCE AND THE MARKS

Only implementations that pass the conformance suites designated in
CONFORMANCE.md may present themselves, their settlements, or their
statements under the ΛRC or <_VΛLIS names. A modified or derivative
implementation that does not pass those suites must not use the marks
to describe itself or its outputs. This is not a restriction on the
code — the code is licensed under Apache-2.0 — it is a condition on
the names, so that a settlement presented as constitutionally governed
is one whose evidence actually verifies under the constitution's rules.
