# License Grant Record — Witnessability Core 1.0

**Status:** READY FOR SIGNATURE — NOT EFFECTIVE UNTIL SIGNED AND PUBLISHED  
**Grantor:** Mikhail A. Sergeev, only to the extent rights subsist and are held or licensable by him  
**Record date:** 2026-07-25  
**Expected detached-signature fingerprint:** `95C4B50ED56544DC033B130DB84B6C860ABAD0B1`

## 1. Exact release objects

| Object | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
| `WITNESSABILITY-CORE-1.0.md` | `382e39864e257d93a0afd16c377c54f59a2182ecc5c38178764ded29ffb3f034` |
| `Witnessability_Core_1.0_RC2_Ratification_Package_Final.zip` | `9ab6071ee53354dacf9ad7377d5a3fc75dc6a4d310a131ca2335703d35a1b541` |
| internal `SHA256SUMS-RC2-RATIFICATION.txt` | `ba69417ffd8da0f9f2edcfd68e29108b03b7c52c27b971e7c18dfadc097ad15c` |
| `RATIFICATION-ATTESTATION-FINAL.md` | `7d7772adb887f0df0408b3c162bafb1010f84dac7f716fea451817628afe483c` |
| `RATIFICATION-ATTESTATION-FINAL.md.asc` | `4235cb20eb9fe13cf8621509afefba74ef265618cdc8c107815580b219f87f97` |
| `RELEASE-AUTHORITY-PUBLIC-KEY.asc` | `5f9a0ecdaf9925905397bc2289ea78abbac018e91da0cab39637d643e7b73115` |

The canonical ZIP contains 53 regular files: 52 payload files covered by its internal checksum index plus the
checksum index itself.

## 2. Grant

Subject to the qualifications below, the Grantor grants:

1. `WITNESSABILITY-CORE-1.0.md` under **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)**.
2. The documentation, governance records, historical records, configuration records, textual patches, and
   compilation/arrangement contained in the canonical ZIP under **CC BY 4.0**, to the extent applicable rights
   subsist and are held or licensable by the Grantor.
3. `verify-release.sh`, SHA-256
   `622b691b4eb37faa29f6533e550dee56c47f506e511f476937c02a0bf804341f`, under **Apache License 2.0**.
4. Public-key and signature artifacts may be copied and redistributed as reasonably necessary for verification,
   without asserting copyright where none subsists.

## 3. Entire-package redistribution

The canonical ZIP may be redistributed intact. Component classification is recorded in
`RIGHTS-AND-AUTHORSHIP-INVENTORY.yaml` and `CANONICAL-PACKAGE-FILE-RIGHTS-INVENTORY.yaml`.

`third_party_materials_status: identified_and_resolved_via_inventory_subject_to_legal_review`

This record does not purport to grant rights held exclusively by an unidentified third party.

## 4. AI-generated and AI-assisted material

Some materials contain AI-generated or AI-assisted content. The grant applies only to rights, if any, that the
Grantor holds or can license. No claim is made that every fragment is copyrightable, that copyright subsists in
all jurisdictions, or that the Grantor owns rights beyond the recorded legal basis.

## 5. Vladimir Ikher clarification

Vladimir Ikher is listed in separate historical publications, including the Model paper and WEXP-00. His role is
recorded as reviewer, with no original textual contribution confirmed to the release authority. No Vladimir
copyright interest in Witnessability Core 1.0 is inferred from those separate bylines, and he is not a grantor of
this Core 1.0 license record.

## 6. Historical-record identity

The licenses permit copying and adaptation but do not authorize a modified copy to represent itself as the
original hash-identified historical record, official project record, ratification artifact, or endorsed conformance
result.

## 7. Marks, patents, and conformance

This record does not grant rights in project marks, certify conformance, provide a patent license beyond an
applicable software license, or authorize an unqualified claim such as `Witnessability Verified`.

## 8. No mutation of ratified bytes

This external grant does not alter the Stable Core or canonical ZIP. Later versions should carry their license
notices inside their own pre-freeze package.

## 9. Signature

The detached signature file shall be named `LICENSE-GRANT-RECORD-CORE-1.0.md.asc`. A valid signature by the
expected fingerprint over the exact bytes of this record makes the grant effective when this record and signature
are publicly distributed with the identified release objects.

## License texts

Repository checkouts use paths under `LICENSES/`; immutable GitHub Release downloads use flat asset basenames:

| License | Repository path | Immutable-release asset |
|---|---|---|
| CC BY 4.0 | `LICENSES/CC-BY-4.0.txt` | `CC-BY-4.0.txt` |
| Apache License 2.0 | `LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt` | `Apache-2.0.txt` |