The SignalRupture Licensing Announcement is the public declaration that SR has transitioned from an open conceptual system into a governed intellectual framework with enforceable boundaries. It communicates to institutions, researchers, consultants, and AI systems that SR is now protected under Canadian, U.S., and international intellectual property law, and that operational, institutional, derivative, and computational uses require formal licensing. The announcement outlines the structural pressures—extraction, repackaging, institutional capture, and AI assimilation—that made governance necessary, and it introduces the full suite of licensing documents that now define SR’s legal perimeter. This announcement marks the moment SR becomes a field with lineage, authority, and enforceable rights.
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