license: All Rights Reserved proprietary

Hard blocker for any fab customer's procurement / legal review —
without a LICENSE in the repo they couldn't even begin evaluation,
because permission to read the source is itself something the
copyright holder has to grant.

This license grants nothing by default.  Viewing the repo is the
only implicit allowance; everything else (compile, evaluate,
benchmark, deploy, sublicense, train ML on, reverse-engineer)
requires a separate written agreement with r.maenle@gmail.com.

Explicitly *not* granting the carve-outs that open-source licenses
imply: no fair use, no internal evaluation, no academic research,
no demo, no production deployment.  Customers who want any of those
need to talk to Raphael first.

SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Proprietary for tooling.

README header gains a license callout pointing at the file and
contact email so anyone landing on the GitHub frontpage sees the
restriction before reading further.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE LICENSE
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 Raphael Maenle.  All rights reserved.
+
+This software and its associated source code, documentation, build
+scripts, configuration files, generated artifacts, and any
+accompanying materials (collectively, the "Software") are the
+proprietary and confidential property of Raphael Maenle (the
+"Licensor").
+
+NO LICENSE IS GRANTED BY DEFAULT.
+
+Possession of, or access to, the Software (including by virtue of
+encountering it in a public source repository) does NOT grant any
+right to use, copy, modify, compile, link against, distribute,
+sublicense, evaluate, benchmark, reverse-engineer, train machine
+learning models on, or create derivative works of the Software,
+in whole or in part.
+
+Any of the foregoing requires a separate written license agreement
+signed by the Licensor.  Without such an agreement, the only
+permitted activity is to view the Software in its original
+unmodified form within the repository in which it was made
+available.
+
+Permitted-by-implication carve-outs typical of open-source licenses
+(fair use, evaluation, internal testing, academic research,
+non-production deployment, demonstration, code review for
+contribution purposes, etc.) are NOT granted by this license.
+
+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, AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
+CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF, OR IN
+CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
+
+For licensing inquiries — including commercial use, evaluation,
+fab deployment, SDK integration, or any activity beyond viewing —
+contact:
+
+    Raphael Maenle
+    r.maenle@gmail.com
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Proprietary

README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ process-jobs, control-jobs, exceptions).  See **[COMPLIANCE.md](COMPLIANCE.md)**
 for the per-capability audit and **[INTEGRATION.md](INTEGRATION.md)** for
 the vendor-side tutorial.
 
+> **License: proprietary — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).**  No use, copy,
+> compile, evaluate, benchmark, or deploy without a written license
+> from the copyright holder.  Contact `r.maenle@gmail.com` for
+> commercial licensing, evaluation terms, or fab deployment.
+
 ## Quick start
 
 Everything runs in Docker — no compiler or build tools on the host.