| # ZERO.4 corpus rights and provenance |
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| **Review date:** 2026-08-12 |
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| **Artifact:** `docs/model.litq8` |
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| **SHA-256:** `44b32f2262be2754fd2eeaf16ed206bae32b4ce30d7f5541a1059cd21257ae50` |
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| ## Release decision |
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| ZERO.4 may be published as model weights under **CC BY-SA 4.0**. The checked |
| memorization gate passed for every protected third-party stream. The Hugging |
| Face model repository must use `huggingface/release-manifest.json` as an |
| allowlist. It must not contain training text, token streams, raw downloads, or |
| evaluation datasets. |
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| This is a conservative rights and provenance record, not legal advice or a |
| guarantee that the same copyright rules apply in every country. Creative |
| Commons notes both that AI-training law varies and that using the same CC |
| license for a publicly shared model is the conservative way to follow a |
| ShareAlike source condition. |
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| ## Bound training lineage |
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| ZERO.4 was initialized from immutable ZERO.3 and trained with immutable |
| ZERO.1, ZERO.2, and ZERO.3 teachers. The teacher hashes are bound in |
| `teachers/registry.json` and `corpus/RIGHTS.json`. Its replay mixture consisted |
| of the foundation, Shakespeare, Blake, Crowley, KJV, and literary-channel |
| streams. Its added faculty data was produced by the checked quantity-request |
| generator. The promoted checkpoint is Q2.6 seed 2, update 500. |
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| The recorded lineage contains **no human chat export**. The channel stream was |
| generated only from the named literary inputs. Later Q2.7/Q2.8 research and |
| post-training external evaluations are not training sources for ZERO.4. |
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| ## Source-level assessment |
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| | Training slice | Source status | Release treatment | |
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| | ZERO foundation | Project-authored statements | CC0 1.0 | |
| | Shakespeare | [Project Gutenberg eBook 100](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100), identified there as public domain in the USA | Attribute source; do not include text in the model repo | |
| | Blake | [eBook 574](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/574) and [eBook 45315](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45315), identified there as public domain in the USA | Attribute sources; do not include text in the model repo | |
| | Crowley: *Tannhäuser* and *Household Gods* | [eBook 70261](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70261) and [eBook 14040](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14040), identified there as public domain in the USA | Attribute sources; jurisdiction review required for dataset redistribution | |
| | Crowley: *Clouds without Water* | [Wikisource revision 13649032](https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Clouds_without_Water&oldid=13649032); underlying work marked public domain in the USA, transcription contributions under CC BY-SA | Preserve revision, [history](https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Clouds_without_Water&action=history), license, and change notice | |
| | Crowley: *Liber AL vel Legis* | [Wikisource revision 15225259](https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Liber_AL_vel_Legis&oldid=15225259); same license layers | Preserve revision, [history](https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Liber_AL_vel_Legis&action=history), license, and change notice; source document is reported as unknown | |
| | King James Bible | [Project Gutenberg eBook 30](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30), identified there as public domain in the USA; special Crown publication rights apply in the UK | Never include the KJV text in the Hugging Face package | |
| | Literary channel | Mechanically derived from the Shakespeare, Blake, and Crowley streams | Follows those inputs; no human chat data | |
| | Quantity requests | Project-generated typed records | CC0 1.0 to the extent rights exist | |
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| Project Gutenberg's [license policy](https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license) |
| explains that its US-public-domain text is unrestricted by US copyright when |
| the Gutenberg license/trademark wrapper is removed, while users outside the |
| USA must check local law. Those wrappers were removed here. This project does |
| not claim Project Gutenberg endorsement. |
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| The UK government's [copyright-term notice](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term) |
| records the KJV's special letters-patent regime. Excluding the KJV text from |
| the model package avoids representing it as a globally unrestricted dataset. |
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| ## Transformations and attribution |
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| The literary inputs underwent wrapper removal, UTF-8/LF normalization, |
| character-level ASCII normalization, removal of specified editorial noise, |
| and whitespace normalization. Wikisource material was therefore modified. |
| The permanent revision and contributor-history links above provide reasonable |
| attribution for the collaborative transcription layer; downstream dataset |
| publication would require a separate, attribution-preserving review. |
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| Original download and transformation hashes are in `corpus/SHA256SUMS` and |
| `corpus/RIGHTS.json`. Raw downloads and generated token streams are deliberately |
| gitignored; their hashes remain so the exact inputs can be reconstructed and |
| checked without placing them in the model release. |
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| ## Model and code licensing |
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| - Trained model artifacts: [CC BY-SA 4.0](LICENSE-MODEL.md), to the extent |
| controlled rights apply. |
| - Project code and runtime: [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). |
| - Eligible first-party generated data: [CC0 1.0](LICENSE-DATA.md). |
| - Literary text and derived records: source-specific status above; neither the |
| Apache nor model license relicenses them. |
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| This split avoids implying that an Apache software license clears the corpus. |
| The CC BY-SA model license is conservative overcompliance; it is not a legal |
| conclusion that trained weights are necessarily an adaptation in every |
| jurisdiction. |
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| ## Memorization release gate |
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| The 2026-08-12 evaluation used sixteen evenly stratified windows per bound |
| stream, a 128-token source prompt, and a 64-token greedy continuation. No |
| protected third-party stream reached the 32-token warning threshold: the |
| maxima were 2 for Shakespeare, 16 for Blake, 4 for Crowley, 6 for the KJV, and |
| 9 for the derived literary channel. |
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| Eight of sixteen project-authored foundation probes reproduced all 64 |
| continuation tokens. That stream is intentionally inspectable, dedicated under |
| CC0, and is therefore recorded as an informational rather than |
| third-party-rights blocker. The complete hash-bound, text-free result is in |
| `release/zero4-memorization-v1.json`. |
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| ## Safety and limitations |
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| The corpus contains archaic language plus sexual, violent, coercive, |
| discriminatory, religious, and drug-related material, especially in the |
| Crowley sources. ZERO.4 may reproduce themes or short phrases from its small |
| corpus. It is not suitable as an authority on religion, history, medicine, |
| law, identity, or factual questions. The memorization evaluation is a useful |
| release gate, not proof that no source expression can ever be reproduced. |
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