Melder™
Copyright 2025-2026 Mark Thomas Geleta / Synaptic AI Systems

Melder™ is a trademark of Mark Thomas Geleta / Synaptic AI Systems. The AGPL
grants rights in the SOFTWARE; it does not grant rights in the name or the
marks. Forks and redistributions must not use the Melder name or marks in a way
that suggests endorsement by, or origin from, the trademark holder.

This product includes software developed by Mark Thomas Geleta.
Source repository: https://github.com/Synaptic724/melder

Melder™ is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version. SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

You may obtain a copy of the License at:

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along
with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

NETWORK USE IS DISTRIBUTION. Section 13 of the AGPL is the clause that separates
it from the ordinary GPL: if you modify Melder™ and let users interact with the
modified version remotely over a network, you must offer those users the
corresponding source of your modified version.

Redistributors of this software must retain this NOTICE file, LICENSE file, and
all attribution and copyright statements when redistributing the software,
whether in source or binary form.

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Third-Party Notices

Melder has NO third-party runtime dependencies. Installing it pulls nothing
else, and no third-party source code is vendored, bundled, or redistributed in
this package.

The following are acknowledged as influences only.

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Python Standard Library

Source: https://github.com/python/cpython
License: Python Software Foundation License (PSFL)
Description:
Parts of this project subclass, extend, or are inspired by classes and mechanisms found in the Python standard library, including but not limited to:
- concurrent.futures.Future
- threading.Thread
- collections.deque

No source code was directly copied from CPython. All extensions and behaviors are original implementations. See the PSFL for legal terms and conditions.

License Text:
https://docs.python.org/3/license.html

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ULID Specification

Source: https://github.com/ulid/spec
Description:
Melder generates ULIDs (Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable
Identifiers) with an original, self-contained implementation of the public ULID
specification in `melder.utilities.helpers.ulid_factory`, using only the Python
standard library. Output is format-compatible with the specification.

No third-party ULID library is used, vendored, or required at runtime, and no
third-party ULID source code was copied.
