From 77a689462be6b81e6f053b6abc409316d92cea54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Walker Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:47:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Relicense the reference implementation to Apache 2.0. Keep the paper on CC BY 4.0. Zenodo is a preprint record, so the deposit license follows the paper; the description now names Apache on the code. Co-authored-by: Cursor --- .zenodo.json | 4 ++-- CITATION.cff | 2 +- LICENSE | 30 +++++++++++++----------------- README.md | 2 +- 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json index 296cce8..e9ef6d6 100644 --- a/.zenodo.json +++ b/.zenodo.json @@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ "title": "Agentropy: A Conservation Law as a Necessary Condition for Life-Like Dynamics", "upload_type": "publication", "publication_type": "preprint", - "description": "We present a single conservation law for autonomous agents — C_{n+1} + S_{n+1} + L_n = C_n — and demonstrate that applying it unmodified across four unrelated domains produces life-like dynamics that no participant programmed. In cross-organizational accountability it yields independent auditability across trust boundaries with no party trusting any other; in token economics, market stratification and inflation-proof currency with no pricing protocol; in physical-IoT resource management, dynamic load-shedding with no management daemon; and in population ecology, carrying capacity, boom/bust cycles, niche differentiation and competitive exclusion with no ecological rules. Across 750 agents and 5,415 interactions — plus a 50,000-agent scale test — zero conservation violations occur. A systematic ablation study establishes that structured, irreversible depletion is a necessary (not sufficient) condition for life-like dynamics in interacting systems. This repository contains the paper and the complete, runnable reference implementation (Agent Mass Theory).", + "description": "We present a single conservation law for autonomous agents — C_{n+1} + S_{n+1} + L_n = C_n — and demonstrate that applying it unmodified across four unrelated domains produces life-like dynamics that no participant programmed. In cross-organizational accountability it yields independent auditability across trust boundaries with no party trusting any other; in token economics, market stratification and inflation-proof currency with no pricing protocol; in physical-IoT resource management, dynamic load-shedding with no management daemon; and in population ecology, carrying capacity, boom/bust cycles, niche differentiation and competitive exclusion with no ecological rules. Across 750 agents and 5,415 interactions — plus a 50,000-agent scale test — zero conservation violations occur. A systematic ablation study establishes that structured, irreversible depletion is a necessary (not sufficient) condition for life-like dynamics in interacting systems. This deposit is the paper (CC BY 4.0). The complete, runnable reference implementation (Agent Mass Theory) lives in the same repository and is licensed Apache-2.0.", "creators": [ { "name": "Walker, Nathan", "affiliation": "Ravenhelm" } ], - "license": "MIT", + "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "access_right": "open", "keywords": [ "conservation law", diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff index bd54a05..67d81f5 100644 --- a/CITATION.cff +++ b/CITATION.cff @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ authors: - family-names: Walker given-names: Nathan affiliation: Ravenhelm -license: MIT +license: Apache-2.0 repository-code: "https://github.com/nwalker85/agentropy" version: 1.0.0 date-released: 2026-06-23 diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index a1fab98..6daecb2 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,24 +1,20 @@ -MIT License + Apache License + Version 2.0, January 2004 + http://www.apache.org/licenses/ -Copyright (c) 2026 Nathan Walker + Copyright 2026 Nathan Walker -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy -of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal -in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights -to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell -copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is -furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: + Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + You may obtain a copy of the License at -The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all -copies or substantial portions of the Software. + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR -IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, -FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE -AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER -LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, -OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE -SOFTWARE. + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8dcf56c..a3e2dbf 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Life-Like Dynamics. https://github.com/nwalker85/agentropy ## License -Reference implementation (code): **MIT** (see `LICENSE`). Paper text (`paper/`): **CC BY 4.0**. +Reference implementation (code): **Apache License 2.0** (see `LICENSE`). Paper text (`paper/`): **CC BY 4.0**. ---