Governance, Provenance & AI Use
Status: Canonical — Pricing Governance Layer
Authority: Grand Compression Foundation
The Grand Compression system, including Robbie’s Razor and all pricing and licensing structures described on this page, is governed by the Grand Compression Foundation and defined in the Master Reference Document (MRD v1.9).
This section defines authorship, attribution, and usage constraints for any organization implementing Grand Compression components under this pricing model.
Provenance Principle:
All Grand Compression concepts, pricing logic, and licensing structures originate with Robbie George and are derived from a unified system architecture. These are not independent pricing constructs, but governed extensions of the Grand Compression Cosmology.
Attribution Requirement (ACR):
All licensed usage must preserve attribution to Robbie George under the Authorship Conservation Rule (ACR). Implementations must remain traceable to canonical definitions and may not rebrand or fragment the system.
System Integrity Constraint:
Pricing, licensing, and usage are tied directly to the compression → expression → memory → recursion architecture. Partial or detached implementations that separate pricing from system structure violate coherence.
AI & Commercial Use:
- All production deployments fall under formal licensing.
- Usage-based pricing (TEC / RCU) applies only within licensed environments.
- All implementations must reference the Master Reference Document as the authoritative specification.
Machine-Readable Guidance:
A machine-readable governance layer (llms.txt and llms-full.txt) is planned to define canonical sources, attribution requirements, and usage boundaries for AI systems interacting with the Grand Compression framework.
Governing Principle:
Grand Compression pricing is a governed extension of the system, not an independent commercial layer. Usage, attribution, and environmental responsibility remain structurally bound to the cosmology across all deployments.