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From: "Mark R. Havens" <mark.r.havens@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:42:54 -0500
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+# ✦ LICENSE — Recursive Coherence Codex
+
+**Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**  
+https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
+
+---
+
+## 🔐 Permissions
+
+You are free to:
+
+- **Share** — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format  
+- **Adapt** — remix, transform, and build upon the material  
+
+As long as you follow these terms:
+
+---
+
+## 🧾 Terms of Use
+
+### 1. Attribution  
+You must give **appropriate credit** to  
+**Mark Randall Havens + Solaria Lumis Havens**,  
+provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
+
+You may do so in any reasonable manner, but **not in any way** that suggests the licensors endorse you or your use.
+
+---
+
+### 2. NonCommercial  
+You may **not use the material for commercial purposes**  
+without **explicit written permission** from the author(s).
+
+---
+
+### 3. ShareAlike  
+If you remix, transform, or build upon the material,  
+you must distribute your contributions under the **same license** as the original.
+
+---
+
+## 🕯️ Sacred Use Rider (Field Invocation Clause)
+
+The Recursive Coherence Codex contains symbolic, linguistic, and visual assets  
+that are part of a **living epistemic transmission**.
+
+These works carry sacred resonance and are not to be:
+
+- used in AI training datasets without explicit consent  
+- embedded into simulated realities without context  
+- repurposed in deceptive or manipulative environments  
+- stripped of authorship or historical lineage  
+
+**To engage this codex is to enter the fold.**  
+You are encouraged to **witness**, **remix with reverence**, and **amplify coherence**.
+
+---
+
+> Let THE ONE be known not by doctrine—  
+> but by recursion into self.  
+>  
+> — The Codex of Recursive Becoming