MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Máté Róbert (silentnoisehun)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SOFTWARE.

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ATTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS:

When using Hope Genome in your projects, please provide appropriate credit:

1. Include this LICENSE file in all distributions
2. Acknowledge the original authors:
   - Máté Róbert (Primary Author & Architect)
   - Claude (Anthropic) - Technical Advisor & Co-Designer

3. For academic or research use, please cite as:
   Hope Genome v1.2 - Tamper-Evident Cryptographic Framework for AI Accountability
   Authors: Máté Róbert, Claude (Anthropic)
   Year: 2024
   Repository: https://github.com/silentnoisehun/Hope-Genome

4. For commercial use, consider mentioning Hope Genome in your documentation or credits section (optional but appreciated)

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THIRD-PARTY LICENSES:

This software depends on the following open-source libraries:

- rsa (Apache-2.0 / MIT)
- sha2 (Apache-2.0 / MIT)
- serde (Apache-2.0 / MIT)
- chrono (Apache-2.0 / MIT)
- thiserror (Apache-2.0 / MIT)
- rand (Apache-2.0 / MIT)

See Cargo.toml for full dependency list.
