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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING NOTICE

This repository contains two distinct categories of content, which are licensed
separately:

1. THE MANUSCRIPT (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

The manuscript titled "Creating Intelligence - A Computational Foundation for
AGI," contained within the `README.md` file, as well as all diagrams,
illustrations, and images located in the `/assets` directory, are the exclusive
intellectual property of the author.

Copyright © 2026 Peter Overmann. All rights reserved.

These materials may not be reproduced, distributed, modified, translated, or
commercialized without explicit, prior written permission from the author.
Users are permitted to view and read this documentation, and to interact with
it using standard GitHub platform features (such as "forking" the repository
for personal reference).


2. THE SOFTWARE (MIT LICENSE)

The software implementation and documentation, excluding the manuscript, is
licensed under the MIT License:

Copyright © 2026 Peter Overmann

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:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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