+Clarified License 1.0.
+ September 07, 2026.
+
+This license is a clarification on terminology and intent to be used on top of existing licenses to help ensure original intent and expectations are maintained without being altered or modified against the intent and purpose of the license.
+This further attempts to explicitly protect the Licenser and the Works from tricks, manipulation, and coercion (be it force, perceived force, fear of harm, or actual harm).
+
+
+Terminology:
+
+ - AI: Artificial Intelligence*.
+ - Combined Work: Anything that incorporates multiple independently licensed components without necessarily modifying their internal structure.
+ - Entity: Is used to refer to entity as well as anything else, such as an individual or other things, and is used this way to simplify reading and writing of this license (Licensee and Licenser have explicitly expanded examples of this).
+ - Implementation: The applying of some Standard or Specification.
+ - LCG: Lossy Computer Generation (any linguistic variation of "Generation", such as "Generated")*.
+ - LLM: Large Language Model*.
+ - Licensee: Any individual, organization, entity, or other thing that uses, applies, to whom this license is granted, to which this license is granted, or that otherwise uses or stores the information and data covered by this license.
+ - Licenser: Any individual, organization, entity, or other thing that grants the license for the Original Works.
+ - Modified Works: A modification of the Works, in part or whole.
+ - Original Works: The original, unmodified, Works with respect to a Modified Works.
+ - SLM: Small Language Model*.
+ - Specification: A specific interpretation or clarification of a Standard, such as the documentation that describes how to use or follow a Standard.
+ - Standard: A set of rules and guidelines.
+ - Wrapped License: A license being applied as a sub-set to this license.
+ - Works: Anything that is under this license, including those under the Wrapped License.
+
+* The AI term refers to intelligence that is artificial.
+ All computers have always been Artificial Intelligence, by definition.
+ Society has recently forgotten the meaning of AI and has redefined the terminology.
+ This license avoids that redefinition and uses the term as described herein.
+ Instead, LCG, or Lossy Computer Generation, is used to represent what society is now improperly using AI to mean.
+ The LCG is a super set of any form of computer generation that stores the original data in a lossy format, such as LLM (Large Language Model) and SLM (Small Language Model).
+ The lossy refers to the data being lost to some extent, similar to how MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III) is a lossy format.
+
+
+RSN) Details on reasons for license:
+
+ 01) There are different open-source licenses available but almost all follow the same basic principles.
+ 02) One would expect that these principles cannot be violated or changed.
+ 03) However, recent years have shown judges and various entities violating these core principles in direct violation of the intent, purpose, and reason for these licenses.
+ 04) Many immoral, unethical, and potentially unlawful tactics are being used in ways that might even appear lawful or is otherwise declared as lawful.
+ 05) This creates confusion in addition to being direct violation of the licenses.
+ 06) The goal of this license is to provide clarification based on observations in the world that conflict with the original intent and purpose of the license by providing a license that wraps a given license.
+ 07) This is done to avoid directly modifying a particular license.
+ 08) As a wrapping license, this is expected to override anything written on the Wrapped License.
+ 09) The goal is not to change the Wrapped License.
+ 10) Instead, the goal is to protect the original intent and purpose of the Wrapped License via explicit clarifications to help protect the Wrapped License from being modified by some third-party, even if that party is a judge or another legal (or lawful) Entity.
+
+ 11) This protection is explicitly achieved by requiring that all parties, of any form, must agree to the clarifications provided herein, irrespective of any other interpretation by any other party outside of the Licenser who maintains the final decision making or further clarifications over any aspect regarding any Works.
+
+
+PRL) Principles of this license:
+
+ 01) Waiving of any rights, protections, provisions, conditions, or anything else for this license is prohibited.
+ a) The Licenser may not waive any rights, protections, provisions, conditions, or anything else for this license.
+ b) The Licenser may explicitly and intentionally change the license instead of waiving but this may not be automatic, without intent, without will, or coerced.
+ 02) The references to this copyright shall describe both this license as well as the wrapped license.
+ a) The common practice will be to combined them, for example to combine `clarified_1_0_or_later` with `lgpl_2_1_or_later` as the Wrapped License would yield a name of `clarified_1_0_or_later-lgpl_2_1_or_later`.
+ b) The descriptions of the copyrights applied in this way may be stored as separate files, such that `clarified_1_0_or_later` will be a file and `lgpl_2_1_or_later` will be a separate file even if the actual applied license is `clarified_1_0_or_later-lgpl_2_1_or_later`.
+ 03) This license shall apply only to Works, the Wrapped License, and anything else covered by this license or the Wrapped License.
+ a) Agreeing to this terminology only applies to this license and Works.
+ b) Anything outside of this license, that is not a Works or the Wrapped License, is not affected by the clarifications of this license.
+ c) This is not intended to change any beliefs, or understandings of terminology, to any Entity, be they Licensee or otherwise, and is only intended to apply these clarifications to the Wrapped License and the Works.
+ d) Any Entity, be they Licensee or otherwise, must accept and acknowledge that these clarifications are independent of their own beliefs and may not apply their beliefs to these interpretations.
+ e) Applying this license may include additional coverage as designated by the Wrapped License.
+ 04) The final and absolute determination of any terminology and intent of this license is by the Licenser or a party explicitly authorized by the Licenser, and is not in any way subject to re-interpretation or re-definition in any way for any reason by any party including but not limited to judges, juries, lawyers, attorneys, technicians, experts, or governments.
+ a) A new Clarification version, along with additional name may be applied following any further clarifications (such as, for example, clarified_joe_shmoes_project_1_1_or_later-lgpl_2_1_or_later).
+ 05) Any restriction, alteration, removal, invalidation, making illegal, or making unlawful of or against any part of this license by any party, such as but not limited to a government or judge, shall not permanently alter this license in any way for any reason.
+ a) That is for example, if some court deems some part of this unlawful and then later makes it lawful, then the now re-lawfulized parts do and must immediately apply once more as if they were never made unlawful.
+ b) When at any point in time under any government any parts of this license is restricted, altered, removed, invalidated or otherwise made illegal, unlawful, or unenforceable is reversed, restored, or otherwise made legal, lawful, and enforceable again, then these parts are immediately in affect again.
+ 06) If at any point in time some party, such as but not limited to a government, makes any change to this license (such as those described in [PRL.05]) and the Licensee for any reason at any time is no longer subject to a given jurisdiction, then those parts of the original license are immediately in effect as if they were never altered or restricted in the first place.
+ a) For example, if a Licensee leaves the jurisdiction of some government that otherwise restricted some part of this license then that otherwise restricted part is immediately in affect again now that the Licensee is out of the given jurisdiction.
+ 07) This license is irrevocable unless there is a breach of the license conditions or as described below.
+ a) This does not prevent the Licenser from changing the license itself or the license applied to the Works.
+ b) This does not prevent the Licenser from upgrading the license to some newer version or variation.
+ 08) This license does not grant any kind of warranty or liability under any circumstances to any party for any reason, be it direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, or in any other form.
+ 09) This license does not restrict any party from optionally providing their own warranty or liability on any Implementation but such warranties or liabilities are completely separate and independent of this license in all circumstances for any reason, be it direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, or for any other reason.
+ 10) The Licensee must be capable of accepting the license.
+ a) Machines, LCG, software, etc... are expressly forbidden from accepting this license.
+ 11) The Licensee must be capable of being legally bound by these terms.
+ 12) This license applies before and overrides anything in the Wrapped License.
+ a) Otherwise, the Wrapped License applies as written.
+ 13) This license requires acceptance that using Works and storing in LCG is considered a Combined Works when that LCG also stores anything other than Works.
+ 14) This license requires acceptance that using Works and storing in LCG as the only thing in that LCG is considered a copy of that Works.
+ 15) This license requires acceptance that generating anything using LCG containing Works is:
+ a) Considered a copy of this Works.
+ b) Is a Modified Works.
+ c) Must comply with this license for this generated content, including:
+ 01) Providing the copyright for this Works for all generated, and therefore, Modified Works.
+ 02) Provide this license for Works for all generated, and therefore, Modified Works.
+ 03) Applying, complying with, and following the Wrapped License for this generated content.
+ d) Containing is not limited to complete works and includes any part of the Works no matter how small or trivial.
+
+
+LCG) Details on LCG usage:
+ 01) The current society has recently re-interpreted common terminology, such as how the term AI is now being interpreted differently.
+ 02) This has become a problem where licenses are being incorrectly perceived as a separate Works.
+ 03) There always has been an expectation that copying this in a lossy format, such as an LCG, would constitute as a Modified Works.
+ 04) This confusion is addressed by being explicitly clear in this regards.
+ 05) In order to accept this license,
+ a) The use of any Works, in part or whole, with or by LCG, be it LLM, SLM, or anything else, must be considered a Modified Works rather than a new or separate Works.
+ b) Appropriate credits must be provided for any and all Modified Works.
+ c) The entire Works, or any part, must be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this license.
+ d) The entire Works, or any part, must apply, comply with, and follow the Wrapped License.
+ 06) Note that this does not require acceptance of "Modified Works", regarding LCG, to be applied to anything not under this license.
+
+
+WAV) Details on denying the waiving of any rights:
+
+ 01) Another recent problem is where entities attempt to force waiving of rights (be it automatic, inferred, or otherwise) when there never has been any such expectation of this even being allowed by this license.
+ 02) This license would realistically fail to be an open-source license if any part of it can be waived.
+ 03) Therefore, no parts of this license may be waived by anyone, including the Licenser, of anything under this license.
+ 04) The Licenser must explicitly, and intentionally, change the license rather than waive anything.
+
+
+MOD) Details on the Modified Works:
+
+ 01) The Modified Works must comply with this license and the Wrapped License.
+ 02) The Modified Works must preserve ownership and copyrights of the Original Works.
+ 03) The Modified Works must not remove any protections of this license.
+ 04) The Modified Works must be marked as changed from the Original Works.
+ 05) Cannot make claims over the Original Works.
+ 06) May not change any copyrights and ownership of the Original Works.
+ 07) Making any modification does not transfer ownership of the Original Works.
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