License

This project uses a dual license, matching its two kinds of content.

Documents, theories, and all prose (everything in docs/, panel/, outputs/, logs/, and the Markdown files at the root): licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Code (any scripts, models, simulations, or web/viz/ source): licensed under the MIT License.

The pairing is deliberate. Share-alike on the ideas keeps the commons a commons — anyone may build on the theories, but their improvements stay open under the same terms, so the shared body of thought cannot be enclosed. MIT on the code keeps the tooling maximally reusable, so models and visualizations can travel into other projects with minimal friction.

Author / founder: Hulki Okan Tabak — with Claude. Contributors retain credit for their contributions (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Documents: CC BY-SA 4.0

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The full legal text is at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode A human-readable summary is at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Code: MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

On the panelists

The panel members are reconstructions of real thinkers’ published positions, framed as intellectual positions rather than the actual persons. Nothing in this project is endorsed by any named thinker, living or dead, or their estates. Where a living figure’s real-world view is discussed, it is cited to its source; invented attributions are prohibited (see CONTRIBUTING.md and Ground Rule 16). The license covers this project’s own text and code, not the underlying works of the thinkers it reconstructs, which remain under their own rights.

On third-party components

The dual license above covers this project’s own first-party content. The reading site is built and served with third-party components under their own permissive/open licenses, credited in the site’s colophon: Eleventy (MIT), Mermaid (MIT), markdown-it (MIT), the GoatCounter analytics script, and the Newsreader and IBM Plex Mono fonts (SIL Open Font License). These remain under their respective licenses, not this project’s.