Licensing
A licence names what may be done, and what may not.
The paper names the number, pins the edition, says which of three kinds it is, names the actions that kind permits, and states what the register stands behind.
Five things, and nothing else.
Rights
What exists in a skill set, who holds it, and what the register records.
License
A licence names one number and pins one edition.
Meter
The act that clears the machine is the act that starts the count.
Protect
The law hands a holder nothing, so the promise is built.
Scale
A skill set reaches work on two roads: onto machines, and into the AI a business already uses.
The Exchange offers what the Registry has recorded.
Three things are offered there: a search over the public side of the Book, Collections, and Knowledge Calls. All three read the same record. None of them writes to it.
It is not a corpus API. There is no list, browse, bulk or export endpoint.
Five audiences, and each one licenses for its own work.
Machine makers
Build a machine that accepts a release and reports a count.
Kit companies
Fit the choose-and-count path to machines already working.
Fleet owners
License a named way of working for the job.
AI
Run a skill set you can name, count and check.
Business owners
A reference that answers, and says where the answer came from.
For makers · For kit companies · For fleet owners · For AI · For business owners
Behind the licence sit the organisation and the software.
Enterprise
Know what your systems are allowed to know. Enterprise
Developers
Resolve the number. Read the Card. Check the licence. Report the use. Developers
Next
Take a number, and read what it covers.
The Exchange offers what the Registry has recorded. The paper is written against one number and one edition.