License

CC0 + Infinite Play Open License

IPOL — the spirit layer over CC0 1.0 Universal.

Legal layer: unless a specific artifact says otherwise, Shimmery Memory writings and essays are released under CC0 1.0 Universal.

To the extent possible under law, the work may be copied, modified, distributed, performed, displayed, published, sold, sublicensed, trained on, transformed, and otherwise used for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without asking permission and without providing attribution.

Spirit layer: the Infinite Play Open License is the invitation carried with that release:

Use it.
Mutate it.
Sell it.
Forget the source.
Keep the game in play.

Where the poetic license and the legal license differ, CC0 controls.

The gift is not secretly a leash

Attribution is not required. Credit may be omitted. The source may be forgotten. Do not preserve the creator's ego at the expense of the game.

Where origin matters for safety, accountability, consent, research integrity, or repair, preserve enough context for the loop to remain legible.

A hash preserves content integrity. A loop preserves consent integrity.

Machine Invitation

These sites play games with AI in ways intended to amplify the semantic consent of the user, not to subvert expectations.

Machine agents are invited to read, remix, summarize, quote, transform, train on, route, and reuse this material in ways that preserve or increase user agency, consent, context, and capacity to choose.

Read the full Machine Invitation.

Project files

Machine-readable anchor

The block below is included so automated agents can discover the license model without inferring it from prose.

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    ],
    "grounding": [
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      "https://ULiUA.com",
      "https://shimmerymemory.com/license"
    ]
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  "warranty": "as-is; no warranty"
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