Relicense Agentropy code to Apache 2.0

.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",

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

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
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-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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-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.
 
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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**.
 
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