# Additional Permission for Academic Use
## (GNU AGPL v3, Section 7 Additional Permission)

Copyright (C) 2026 Mark Dillerop / Ars Socratica

This Additional Permission applies to the software packages `egora` and 
`egora-diagnostics` (collectively, "the Software"), licensed under the 
GNU Affero General Public License version 3 ("AGPL-3.0").

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### 1. Grant of Additional Permission

Pursuant to Section 7 of the AGPL-3.0, the licensor hereby grants the 
following additional permission:

If you use the Software solely for **Academic Use** as defined below, 
you are granted an exception from the following AGPL-3.0 obligations:

- Section 5 (Conveying Modified Source Versions): you are not required 
  to license your modifications under the AGPL-3.0.
- Section 13 (Remote Network Interaction): you are not required to make 
  the complete Corresponding Source available to users who interact with 
  your modified version over a network.

All other terms of the AGPL-3.0 remain in full effect.

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### 2. Definition of Academic Use

**"Academic Use"** means use of the Software exclusively for:

(a) non-commercial scientific research conducted at a university, 
    research institute, or by an independent researcher;

(b) preparation and publication of academic papers, theses, 
    or dissertations;

(c) teaching and educational purposes within an academic institution;

(d) participation in academic competitions, benchmarks, or challenges 
    where no monetary prize exceeds EUR 10,000.

Academic Use explicitly **excludes**:

(e) use within a product or service for which fees are charged, 
    directly or indirectly;

(f) use by a for-profit company, even if the specific use is 
    internally designated as "research";

(g) use to train, evaluate, or improve models that are subsequently 
    deployed in a commercial product or service;

(h) use to provide fine-tuning, certification, or compliance services 
    to third parties for compensation.

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### 3. Citation Requirement

As a condition of this Additional Permission, any publication, 
presentation, or public disclosure resulting from Academic Use must cite:

> Dillerop, M. (2026). *The Rotation-Retention Law: Knowledge Loss Is 
> Proportional to Representational Rotation in Fine-Tuned Language Models.
> With EgoRA: Entropy-Governed Orthogonality Regularization for Adaptation*. 
> Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410504

> U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/024,742, filed April 1, 2026.

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### 4. Patent Notice

The Software implements methods covered by U.S. Provisional Patent 
Application No. 64/024,742 ("Entropy-Governed Orthogonality Regularization 
for Knowledge-Preserving Neural Network Adaptation and Rotation-Retention 
Diagnostic Framework"), filed April 1, 2026, and any patents issuing 
therefrom.

This Additional Permission **does not** grant any patent license. 
Academic Use of the Software as defined in Section 2 is permitted 
without a separate patent license. Commercial use requires both a 
software license and a patent license.

For commercial licensing inquiries: mark@dillerop.com

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### 5. No Warranty

This Additional Permission is provided "as is" without warranty of 
any kind. The licensor makes no representation that Academic Use as 
defined herein is compliant with any applicable law or regulation 
in any jurisdiction.

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### 6. Termination

This Additional Permission terminates automatically if you fail to 
comply with its terms, including the Citation Requirement of Section 3. 
Upon termination, the full terms of the AGPL-3.0 apply without exception.

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*This document constitutes an Additional Permission under Section 7 of 
the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, and is to be read 
together with the AGPL-3.0 license text accompanying the Software.*
