# The Isaac-Benjamin Software License (IBSL) v1.0
### Anti-Corporate • Anti-AI-Scraping • Source-Available Software License

Copyright (c) 2026 isaac-benjamin

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# 0. Purpose

The Isaac-Benjamin Software License (IBSL) is a source-available software license designed to protect independent developers, modding communities, creators, hobbyists, and community-driven projects from exploitative corporate usage, mass data extraction, and artificial intelligence training systems.

This license allows normal software usage, modification, sharing, and independent commercial activity while restricting exploitative behavior from large organizations and AI scraping operations.

Normal users are welcome.  
Content creators are welcome.  
Modders are welcome.  
Indie developers are welcome.  
Community projects are welcome.  

General commercial use is allowed provided the restrictions of this license are respected.

This software license is intentionally hostile toward exploitative corporate behavior, surveillance capitalism, and unauthorized AI scraping systems.

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# 1. Permissions Granted

You may:

- Use the software privately or publicly.
- Modify the software.
- Share original or modified versions.
- Fork the project.
- Learn from the source code.
- Use the software in videos, streams, tutorials, showcases, and online content.
- Monetize content involving the software.
- Use the software commercially if you are not restricted under Section 3.
- Create derivative works and projects.
- Re-license modified versions ONLY if the protections and restrictions of this license remain intact.

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# 2. Attribution

Any redistribution, modification, or public use of the software must include:

- Credit to **isaac-benjamin** as the author of the original software.
- A copy of this license.
- Clear indication of major modifications if changes were made.

You may not:
- Remove original copyright notices.
- Falsely claim authorship of the original software.
- Misrepresent modified versions as official releases.

Example attribution:

> Contains software created by isaac-benjamin under the Isaac-Benjamin Software License (IBSL).

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# 3. Restricted Corporate Usage

The following entities may NOT use this software without explicit written permission from the software author:

- Publicly traded corporations.
- Subsidiaries of publicly traded corporations.
- Venture-capital-funded companies.
- Surveillance companies.
- Data-brokerage firms.
- Military contractors.
- Advertising technology companies.
- Organizations whose primary business involves monetizing user data.
- Companies primarily involved in AI model training or AI infrastructure.

This restriction applies to:
- Internal use
- Commercial deployment
- SaaS platforms
- Embedded usage
- Derivative products
- Cloud services
- Proprietary integrations
- AI systems

Attempting to bypass these restrictions through subsidiaries, contractors, shell companies, or proxy organizations is considered a violation of this license.

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# 4. AI and Dataset Prohibition

You may NOT use this software, source code, documentation, assets, comments, structure, repository history, or related materials for:

- AI training
- LLM training
- Machine learning datasets
- Neural network training
- Code generation systems
- Embedding generation
- Dataset scraping
- Automated extraction systems
- AI-assisted code products
- Synthetic dataset generation
- Foundation model corpora
- AI benchmarking
- Retrieval systems
- Fine-tuning datasets

This prohibition applies whether:
- The usage is commercial or non-commercial.
- The software is modified or unmodified.
- The extraction is automated or manual.
- The repository is public or private.

You may not:
- Scrape the repository.
- Mirror the repository into datasets.
- Feed the project into coding assistants.
- Use the project to improve AI-generated code systems.

Violation of this section immediately terminates all rights granted under this license.

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# 5. Commercial Usage

Commercial usage is allowed for:

- Independent developers
- Freelancers
- Mod creators
- Streamers and content creators
- YouTubers
- Small businesses
- Community projects
- Indie studios
- Private servers
- Hosting providers

You may:
- Sell software using this code.
- Monetize videos or streams involving this software.
- Accept donations related to projects using this software.
- Include modified versions in paid projects.
- Use modified versions commercially.

You may NOT:
- Use DRM specifically intended to prevent modification or study.
- Remove attribution.
- Violate Sections 3 or 4.

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# 6. Modification and Forking

You may freely:
- Modify the software
- Rewrite the software
- Fork the software
- Merge the software into other projects
- Port the software
- Improve or extend the software

Derivative licenses are allowed provided:
- Attribution to isaac-benjamin remains intact.
- The protections in Sections 3 and 4 are preserved unless explicitly waived by the software author.

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# 7. No Warranty

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

The software author is not liable for:
- Damages
- Data loss
- Security vulnerabilities
- System instability
- Financial losses
- Hardware damage
- Corrupted files
- Broken mods
- Save corruption
- Unexpected behavior
- Exploding GPUs
- Reality collapse
- Cosmic anomalies
- Spontaneous combustion of your spaghetti code

Use the software entirely at your own risk.

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# 8. Termination and Enforcement

Violation of any section of this license results in immediate termination of all granted rights.

Upon termination, the following applies:

- All rights granted under this license are automatically revoked.
- You must immediately cease use, distribution, and deployment of the software.
- You must remove all copies of the software and derivatives under your control where reasonably possible.

## Reporting and Enforcement

If you believe this license has been violated, or if enforcement is required,
you may contact the software author directly:

📧 isaacbenjaminsoft@protonmail.com

The author may, at their discretion:
- Request removal of infringing usage
- Request cessation of distribution
- Request attribution correction
- Grant or deny exceptions in writing

Failure to comply with enforcement requests may result in further action,
including public notice of violation or additional legal steps where applicable.

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# 9. License Reuse

Anyone may copy, modify, adapt, redistribute, or fork the text of this license itself.

Modified versions must not falsely claim to be the official Isaac-Benjamin Software License unless published by the software author.

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# 10. Human Summary

You CAN:
- Use the code
- Modify the code
- Share the code
- Fork the project
- Make videos about it
- Stream it
- Monetize content involving it
- Use it commercially if you are independent or community-focused

You CANNOT:
- Feed it into AI systems
- Scrape it into datasets
- Use it inside exploitative corporations
- Remove attribution
- Falsely claim authorship of the original software

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# 11. Short Header Notice

```txt
Copyright (c) 2026 isaac-benjamin

Licensed under the Isaac-Benjamin Software License (IBSL) v1.0.

Commercial use is permitted for independent creators,
content creators, modders, and community projects.

Use by large corporations, AI training systems,
dataset scrapers, surveillance entities, or related
organizations is prohibited without explicit permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
```
# 12. Future Versions

The software author may publish revised or updated versions
of the Isaac-Benjamin Software License (IBSL).

Projects licensed under this license may choose to:

- Continue using the version originally provided.
- Upgrade to a newer version of the license.
- Use any later version published by the software author,
  if the project explicitly states "IBSL v1.0 or later".

Unless otherwise specified, newer versions of the license
do not automatically apply retroactively.
