NOTICE

AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP NOTICE
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Project:   authgate-kernel
Author:    Ali Pourrahim (https://github.com/Aliipou)
Contact:   Alipourrahim.ap@gmail.com
Copyright: © 2026 Ali Pourrahim. All rights reserved.

Statement of independent authorship
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authgate-kernel — a capability-constrained authorization kernel for
agent tool execution — was conceived, designed, and implemented by
the Author as an independent personal work.

It was NOT created as part of, and does NOT incorporate or depend on:
  - any course, thesis, or degree requirement of any institution;
  - any employment, grant, scholarship, or funded research project;
  - any institution's facilities, equipment, funding, or confidential
    information.

The Author is the sole owner of all intellectual property in this
work. No third party, including any university, research, development,
or innovation (RDI) office, holds any ownership interest, license, or
right to claim credit for this work, its design, or its underlying
ideas, except by a separate written agreement signed by the Author.

Evidence of authorship and priority
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Authorship and creation dates are evidenced by the public version-
control history of this repository (commit authorship and timestamps)
and its public publication record at:
  https://github.com/Aliipou/authgate-kernel

Use and attribution
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Use of this work is governed by the LICENSE file in this repository
(PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0). Noncommercial use — research,
educational, evaluation, and internal non-commercial testing — is
permitted with attribution. Commercial use, production deployment,
resale, and SaaS offerings require a separate commercial license from
the Author. Attribution to the Author must never be removed or
misrepresented.