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Note: While this implementation is licensed under MIT, specific algorithmic
methods used by Monogate Forge are covered by patents held by Monogate Research
(see `patents/index.md`). The MIT license grants you the right to use, modify,
and distribute THIS implementation. Independent re-implementations of patented
methods may require licensing — contact the project maintainers for details.

This is the same model used by GCC + the x86 instruction set: the compiler
is open, but specific microarchitectural techniques may be patented.
