# License scope and third-party acknowledgments

Ian G. Williams selected the MIT license on November 3, 2026. The [MIT license](LICENSE) applies to original project code, documentation and analysis to the extent the project holds the relevant rights. It does not relicense underlying posts, quotations, adaptations, images, source exports, software dependencies or third-party taxonomy resources. Mixed pages and downloads contain materials with separate terms. Preserve their source attribution and applicable license notices. Original post writers are source authors, not automatically authors of this software or new analysis. AI assistance and documented human contributions are disclosed in the README and work log.

## Tagging The Tower source articles

The November 1, 2026 WordPress export (SHA-256 `ba4bb721c4f32b3340126f78e93f8b812e0ef79cd31810a9bc1c6f6dccb49ee7`) contains 430 category records, of which 421 are published and nine are drafts. The export’s `cac_cc_license` field contains `by-nc-sa` for 276 records: 275 published posts and one draft. This identifies **Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike, with no version specified in that metadata**. Do not silently substitute version 4.0. Its attribution, noncommercial and share-alike requirements remain applicable; MIT does not remove them.

The other 154 records (146 published, eight drafts) have no per-post license metadata. Missing evidence does not establish permission, public-domain status or MIT licensing. Verify the original work’s terms before reuse. A later live-site notice is not proof of a historical article’s license version.

The complete record-level ledger preserves titles, source links for published posts, raw license values, recorded author credits and uncertainty. In the source repository see [source rights](SOURCE_RIGHTS.html) and [JSON ledger](rights/source_rights.json); the published website uses [Source rights](SOURCE_RIGHTS.html). A posting account or provisional credit is not a verified human byline. Cite the original writers and distinguish source attribution from project credit.

## Creative Commons media and historical notices found in the export

These apply to the referenced works or historical captions, **not automatically the surrounding article**. The ledger preserves exact exported context, source IDs and URLs. Versions below are recorded only where explicit:

- **CC BY 2.0**: Patrick Hoesly (post 19742) and Eric Fischer (post 19737), photo credits via photopin; Craig Freeman, “Reflections in the Shard of Glass” (published source item 3725, outside the category ledger). [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
- **CC BY-SA 2.0**: Leon Brooks (post 3788); Willow Brugh, “database skillshare relational” (19827); Lisa Risager, “WordPress 10th anniversary,” uploaded by palnatoke (19790). [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).
- **CC BY-SA 3.0**: railway-map derivative caption in post 19844 credits User:Justthisonceokey and User:Theshibboleth and identifies earlier map sources. Consult the exact caption for the full derivative chain. [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
- **CC BY-NC 2.0**: *katz (post 19754), via photopin; Thomas Hawk, “We’ve Got to Look Out for Each Other, She Said” (attachment 5605). [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/).
- **CC BY-NC-ND 2.0**: Cam Miller, “The Other Colors of Spring,” in historical revision 4141. A revision is historical evidence, not a confirmed current article notice. [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).
- **CC BY-SA 4.0**: Muntaka Chasant, electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, Ghana (attachment 20647). [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- **CC BY 4.0**: IceMing & Digit, “Stochastic Parrots at Work,” via Better Images of AI (attachment 23853). [License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- **Creative Commons, type/version unspecified**: tanakawho, “abstract,” via Flickr (attachment 3646); a.dombrowski (3776); Olivier (3866); David Mulder, Christian Jensen and Timothy Terway (19807); Transmediale (19825); Stanley Zimny (19831); Rob Young (19832); Craig Rodway, “Join” (4920). Do not infer a particular grant from these incomplete notices.

Notices identify exported evidence, not independent legal verification or a comprehensive audit of linked sites. Generic discussions of Creative Commons are not license grants. An article’s license field does not necessarily cover incorporated media. Source rendering, excerpts, screenshots and bundles retain these distinctions. No source authorship or fellowship decision was changed by this licensing update.

## Other third-party resources

Dependencies (including NLTK and MALLET) and CRediT/GAIDeT resources retain their own licenses and notices; MIT here is no sublicense of those works. See their saved provenance and source links in the methods and attribution documentation. The People directory’s separately observed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 notice does not establish the version of article-level export metadata.

MIT reference: [Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/license/mit). Creative Commons guidance: [license overview](https://creativecommons.org/cc-licenses/). This notice describes project scope and observed evidence; unresolved source terms remain unresolved.


## Inclusive-design skill guidance

This project incorporates unchanged skill texts from [Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills/tree/6e0740f04b2130af60bc57abe3401b91e460e70d), commit `6e0740f04b2130af60bc57abe3401b91e460e70d` (retrieved November 3, 2026), under MIT. **Copyright (c) 2026 MC Dean.** The original permission and warranty notice is retained in `.agents/skills/LICENSE` and `accessibility/INCLUSIVE_DESIGN_LICENSE.txt` in the published package (`analysis/accessibility/INCLUSIVE_DESIGN_LICENSE.txt` in the source repository). The source-rights exceptions above remain in force. This is third-party source attribution, not a project CRediT role, human review or endorsement. See the inclusive-design integration guide and manifest for 39 enabled skills, one preserved upstream duplicate, exact file hashes and scope limitations.

## Supplementary development skills

**Archify:** the unchanged project-local `archify/` skill package from [tt-a1i/archify](https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify/tree/a4065941f12be7967436261d9934784e381d423c/archify), pinned `a4065941f12be7967436261d9934784e381d423c`, defaults to Apache-2.0. Its LICENSE, LICENSE-MIT, NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md preserve historical MIT grants, third-party terms and recorded copyrights for tt-a1i (Archify) and Cocoon AI. These terms cover its runtime/templates, not ownership of authored project content. See `analysis/skills/archify/README.md` in the private source repository for integration scope. The authoring skill package remains private. Four standalone workflow diagrams embed its runtime and retain their embedded notices; LICENSE, LICENSE-MIT, NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md are published beside them under diagrams/workflow/.

**Design Slop:** the unchanged project-local skill is pinned to wpgaurav/design-slop revision `762729ec0031c50260992cef8e7ed2562bb66f31`, under MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 Gaurav Tiwari. Its LICENSE and source references are preserved with separate provenance. These upstream credits do not establish contribution, endorsement or human review of this project. Original project MIT and source-post rights remain unchanged.

## November 9, 2026 additive source refresh

The active composite adds two published posts from Ian G. Williams’s supplied November 9 export to the preserved November 1 snapshot. It contains 423 published category records: 277 carry `cac_cc_license = by-nc-sa` without a version, and 146 lack per-post license metadata. Original metadata and separate photography credits remain preserved. This update does not assign a version, remove restrictions, or apply project MIT to source works. See `analysis/refresh/2026-11-09/receipt.json` and the regenerated rights ledger for fingerprints.

## Fonts in the isolated typography demo

The local demo under `analysis/demos/flyer_typography/` bundles unmodified Pixelify Sans and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next font files under SIL Open Font License 1.1, with upstream copyright and license notices beside the files. Font authors and pinned sources are recorded in that demo’s README and manifest. These fonts are not covered by project MIT and are not added to the public release by this reference/demo task. The source artwork retains its separate rights.

The previously isolated flyer typefaces are also bundled in the active explorer under `assets/fonts/`: Pixelify Sans and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, unmodified and governed by their accompanying SIL OFL 1.1 notices. The project MIT license does not replace these font licenses.