chore: reissue music novelty/citation/entity/badge backfill from current main (#4)

Author: Zer0pa-Architect-Prime

CITATION.cff

@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ authors:
   - family-names: Zer0pa
 version: 0.1.0
 url: https://github.com/Zer0pa/ZPE-Music
+license: LicenseRef-Zer0pa-SAL-7.0
+contact:
+  - email: architects@zer0pa.ai

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # zpe-music
 
+[![License: SAL v7.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-SAL%20v7.0-e5e7eb?labelColor=111111)](LICENSE)
+
 ## What This Is
 
 `zpe-music` is a music encoding product for canonical symbolic score data, with a bounded note-local expression refinement carried on the same score note. It is useful now for MusicXML pipelines that need auditable roundtrip recovery of score structure plus note-local `attack`, `release`, and `dynamics`-derived fields.

docs/_reorientation/2026-04-17/NOVELTY_CARD.md

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+# ZPE-Music Novelty Card
+
+**Product:** ZPE-Music
+**Domain:** Deterministic symbolic-score encoding with bounded note-local expression carried on the same authority-native score note.
+**What we sell:** Exact round-trip serialization of canonical symbolic score structure with bounded note-local expression attachment for auditable MusicXML pipelines.
+
+## Novel contributions
+
+1. **Score-note base with note-local expression fiber** — The product keeps the authority-native score note as the base object and carries bounded expression on that same note rather than emitting a second performed-note stream. `src/zpe_music/music/parser.py` extracts score notes together with note-local `attack`, `release`, and `dynamics` fields, and `src/zpe_music/music/pack.py` emits those fields as typed control words bound to the same note event. The novel contribution is the score-note-plus-expression-fiber contract itself.
+
+2. **Deterministic same-pitch repeated-note disambiguation** — Repeated same-pitch notes retain distinct expression attachment instead of collapsing onto a pitch-only key. The repeated-note merge and active-note tracking live in `src/zpe_music/music/parser.py`, and `tests/test_music_expression_authority_roundtrip.py` includes the repeated-note authority cases that prove per-note expression identity survives. The novel contribution is the deterministic attachment surface for repeated same-pitch score notes.
+
+## Standard techniques used (explicit, not novel)
+
+- MusicXML parsing and canonical symbolic-score extraction
+- Fixed-width control-word packing for bounded metadata and expression fields
+- Delta encoding for onset and duration refinement
+- Deterministic label registries for part and voice identifiers
+- pytest-based regression verification
+
+## Compass-8 / 8-primitive architecture
+
+NO. LICENSE §7.10 is authoritative.
+
+This product's novelty surface is symbolic-score structure plus bounded note-local expression. The repository contains directional-token helper code under `src/zpe_music/diagram/`, but that is not the product claim surface and is not a Novel Contribution of ZPE-Music.
+
+## Open novelty questions for the license agent
+
+- None in this pass.

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 description = "Canonical symbolic-score codec with a bounded note-local expression refinement"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-authors = [{name = "Zer0pa"}]
+authors = [{name = "Zer0pa (Pty) Ltd"}]
 dependencies = ["music21>=9.1"]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]