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A2AC WORKSPACE™ & Q PROTOCOL™ PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE LICENSE & IP PROTECTION AGREEMENT
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Copyright (c) 2024-2026 A2AC LLC and Phil Hills. All Rights Reserved.
Patent Pending. Trade Secrets & Proprietary Autonomous Agent Coordination Technology.

IMPORTANT — READ CAREFULLY:
This Proprietary Software License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legally binding
contract between you (either an individual or an entity, "Licensee") and A2AC LLC
("Licensor"), governing your installation, access, and use of the A2AC Workspace™
Extension, Q Protocol™ SDK, Chimera Sovereign Model Architecture, and associated
software, binaries, schemas, and documentation (collectively, the "Software").

BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS
OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE.

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1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & PATENT RESERVATION
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(a) Proprietary Architecture: The Software incorporates proprietary trade secrets,
    novel algorithms, and patent-pending inventions developed by Phil Hills and
    A2AC LLC, including but not limited to:
    - Q Protocol™ & Zero-Token Cognition (K→0) Context Hydration Engine;
    - Tamper-Evident Cryptographic Receipt Ledger (Cube Schema v2 Merkle DAG);
    - Multi-Tier Sovereign Failover Carousel & Agent-to-Agent Containment Mesh;
    - Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) Chimera Browser Injection & Interception;
    - Strominger BMS Soft-Hair / Conformal Boundary Agent Routing Algorithms.

(b) Exclusive Ownership: All right, title, interest, patents, copyrights, trade
    secrets, trademarks, and intellectual property rights in and to the Software,
    accompanying documentation, and any derivative works or improvements remain
    solely and exclusively with Phil Hills and A2AC LLC. No title or ownership is
    transferred under this Agreement.

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2. LIMITED GRANT OF LICENSE (BETA & EVALUATION)
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Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Licensor grants Licensee a
revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable limited license to:
(a) Install and run the Software within authorized IDE environments (Antigravity IDE,
    VS Code, VSCodium) solely for internal development, evaluation, and beta testing.
(b) Connect authorized local and cloud agent runtimes to orchestrate multi-agent
    development workflows under Licensee's designated accounts.

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3. LICENSE RESTRICTIONS (STRICT IP PROTECTION)
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Licensee shall NOT, directly or indirectly:
(a) Reverse Engineer: Decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, decrypt, or
    attempt to derive the source code, internal schemas, or underlying algorithms
    of any compiled or obfuscated components of the Software.
(b) Commercial Sublicensing & Redistribution: Sublicense, sell, rent, lease,
    distribute, host as a managed service, or commercially exploit the Software
    or any portion thereof without an express written Enterprise Commercial
    License executed by an authorized officer of A2AC LLC.
(c) Competitive Training & Distillation: Use the Software, its coordination
    receipts, memory schemas, or agent interaction outputs to train, fine-tune,
    or distill any competing multi-agent coordination system or foundation model.
(d) Removal of Notices: Modify, remove, or obscure any proprietary copyright,
    patent, trademark, or confidentiality notices embedded in or displayed by
    the Software.

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4. CONFIDENTIALITY
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Licensee acknowledges that pre-release features, internal protocol specifications,
gateway endpoints, and beta builds constitute valuable confidential information
and trade secrets of A2AC LLC. Licensee agrees to protect such information with
reasonable care and not disclose it to third parties without prior written consent.

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5. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL A2AC LLC, PHIL HILLS, OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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6. GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION
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This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of Washington, USA, without giving effect to any conflict of law
principles. Any legal action arising from this Agreement shall be instituted
exclusively in the state or federal courts located in King County, Washington.

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For commercial licensing, enterprise deployment, or patent inquiries:
A2AC LLC
Email: phil@a2ac.ai | legal@a2ac.ai
Website: https://a2ac.ai
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