Bolyra
Copyright 2026 Viswanadha Pratap Kondoju

This product includes software developed by Viswanadha Pratap Kondoju for the Bolyra
project (https://bolyra.ai).

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PATENT NOTICE
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The patent grant in Section 3 of the Apache License, Version 2.0 ("the
License") under which this software is distributed extends, without
limitation, to all patent claims owned or controlled by the Licensor that are
necessarily infringed by the Contribution alone or in combination with this
Work, including without limitation any claims that may issue from the
following patent applications and any continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisionals, reissues, reexaminations, foreign counterparts, or any other
applications claiming priority therefrom:

  - U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/043,898, filed April 20, 2026,
    titled "Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Composable Delegation
    Between Human and Artificial Intelligence Agent Identities Using
    Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Scope Commitment Chain Linking."

The Licensor reserves the right to file additional patent applications
covering subject matter contained in or related to this Work. Any such
applications, if filed and prosecuted by the Licensor, will be subject to the
same patent grant under Section 3 of the License with respect to the version
of the Work distributed under the License.

The defensive termination provision of Section 3 of the License applies in
full: any patent license granted under the License terminates as of the date
that the licensee institutes patent litigation against the Licensor, the
Bolyra protocol, or any compliant implementation thereof.

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STANDARDS BODY INTENT
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The Licensor intends, but is not yet bound, to make a royalty-free (RF)
licensing declaration consistent with the IETF IPR disclosure rules (BCP 79)
and the W3C Patent Policy at such time as the Bolyra protocol is submitted to
a recognized standards body. This statement is forward-looking and does not
itself constitute an RF declaration to any particular standards
organization.

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TRADEMARK NOTICE
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"Bolyra" is a trademark of Viswanadha Pratap Kondoju. The Apache License does not grant
permission to use the trade name "Bolyra" or related marks except as required
for describing the origin of the Work and as permitted under the nominative
fair use policy set out in TRADEMARKS.md at the project root. See
TRADEMARKS.md for details on permitted and prohibited uses.

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THIRD-PARTY NOTICES
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This software depends on other open-source software. License information for
those dependencies is included in the corresponding package metadata
(package.json, node_modules/<dep>/LICENSE).
