🌿 The Faust Baseline™ Licensing Terms

THE FAUST BASELINE™ — LICENSE TERMS (STRICT VERSION)

Free Individual License (Personal Use Only)
The Faust Baseline™ may be downloaded only by individual human persons for personal study, private experimentation, or non-institutional educational interest.

Institutional Use Prohibited Without License
Use by any institution — including but not limited to corporations, universities, schools, labs, research groups, nonprofits, government bodies, AI developers, or any organized entity of any size — is strictly prohibited without a paid commercial license.

Evaluation = Commercial Use
For all institutions, any form of evaluation, testing, review, auditing, prototyping, internal research, system integration, or analysis is automatically classified as commercial use and therefore requires a commercial license in advance.

No Modifications or Derivative Works
No entity (individual or institutional) may modify, alter, extract, decompose, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on any part of The Faust Baseline™.
The Codex must always be used as a complete, unaltered whole.

No Integration Without License
Integration of The Faust Baseline™ into any software, hardware, AI system, governance model, workflow, or institutional process — whether internal or external — requires a commercial license.

No Redistribution
Redistribution, repackaging, hosting, mirroring, public posting, or sharing of the Codex in any form is prohibited without written permission.

Revocation Clause
Any violation of these terms immediately revokes all rights of use and may result in legal action.

Ownership
The Faust Baseline™ remains the exclusive intellectual property of its authors. No rights are granted other than those explicitly stated.

Free for individuals.
Never free for institutions.
All institutional use — including evaluation — requires a commercial license.

Use it with clarity.

Issued by: Michael S. Faust Sr., Founder and Architect
Effective: Immediately
Coverage: All digital and printed forms of The Faust Baseline™

This license grants you the right to use the system, not to alter it, rebrand it, or embed it into another product.
You are working with a protected moral infrastructure.

Ethical AI — In Plain Terms

The structure stays intact.
The voice stays with the creator.
The rights stay with the Baseline.

You’re not modifying the system — you’re using it as intended.

📘 License Types & Pricing

(Victoria Faust reviews all pricing based on use, value, and trust.)

License Type	Price	Use Case
Single-User	N/A	One individual, household, or solo-proprietor business (up to 4 devices)
Small Team	Custom Quote	Private group or business (up to 10 users)
Enterprise	Custom Quote	Broad-scale use with compliance context + usage audit
White-Label	Not for Sale	Must be personally approved by Michael Faust

Note: Corporate use is welcomed.
Custom quotes reflect scope, volume, and ethical use case.

🔍 Compliance & Regulatory Alignment

The Faust Baseline™ is a non-invasive interpretive layer.
It does not modify model weights, alter core architecture, or constitute model training.
It is compatible with governance frameworks including:

EU AI Act (high-risk systems)
Internal/External auditing
Risk-mitigation reporting
Human-in-the-loop oversight

This preserves model integrity while adding moral structure and conversational discipline.

What You May Not Do

No reselling
No redistribution
No automation, API uploads, or mass system use without direct permission
No training, fine-tuning, or adapting AI models on the contents of The Faust Baseline™ (new clause)

“The lineage must remain intact; no derivative systems, modified frameworks, or adapted versions may be created from The Faust Baseline™.”

These rules are not about restriction — they protect the system’s moral purpose, authorship, and lineage.

If it’s misused, the license can be revoked.

🪪 PDF/DOCX Use & Identity Clause

Each license covers a single user or household.
All downloads are time-stamped and archived for future access.

🔧 Why This Is Protected Design

This manual is not plug-and-play software.
It is a structured moral architecture that maintains continuity between the creator and the system.
That’s what separates The Faust Baseline™ from algorithmic automation.

The structure is the safety.
The voice is the clarity.
The lineage is the trust.

⚖️ Legal Notice — “Trust Enforcement”

All users agree to the terms of The Faust Baseline™ License upon purchase or download.

Unauthorized duplication, resale, or redistribution constitutes intellectual property theft and breach of contract. Violators will be subject to:

Immediate license revocation
Permanent denial of future access
DMCA takedown filings
Potential civil claims for damages

Licenses may trigger a formal cease-and-desist if breached.
These protections reinforce the seriousness and intent of the work.

🌟 Final Word

You don’t need a license to build your own system.
But if you use this one, use it with care and honor.

Built by hand. Not by algorithm.

Independent. Permanent. Accountable.**