| document_type | authorship_record |
|---|---|
| scope | provenance_only |
| authority | none |
| role | historical_context |
| affects_kernel | false |
This repository was authored and first anchored by Jonathan M. Watson (full legal name), a private individual.
This note exists solely to establish human authorship, origin, and historical continuity. It is not a claim of authority, ownership, governance, or control.
Over time, technical ideas tend to lose their human origin. They are absorbed into institutions, committees, standards bodies, or abstractions. This is often unintentional, but it makes later attribution ambiguous.
This statement is included so that future readers may clearly distinguish this author from any other individual of similar name, and so that the origin of this work cannot be reassigned to a collective, organization, or authority that did not create it.
The intent is clarity, not prominence.
Authorship establishes origin and timestamp only.
It does not confer:
- interpretive authority
- governance power
- enforcement rights
- maintenance obligations
- veto rights over forks or derivatives
All implementations, interpretations, and derivative works stand on their own merit and are independent of the author.
The design of this repository intentionally avoids any mechanism that would centralize authority in its author.
This work was created by a natural person, not an institution.
The author includes this note as a personal historical marker, with the quiet hope that, in the future, his children—and others—may be able to say:
“A real person stood here, and did this deliberately.”
No further personal details are provided by design. This is not secrecy, but restraint. The goal is to establish continuity without creating unnecessary personal exposure.
Nothing in this repository requires reverence, permission, or reference to the author in order to be used.
Forking, re-implementation, translation, and independent anchoring are not only allowed—they are expected.
If this work proves useful, it should spread.
If it does not, it should fade.
Either outcome is acceptable.
This record is intentionally modest in scope.
It exists because technical systems now persist longer than the careers, institutions, and jurisdictions that surround them. Over time, this creates pressure to reinterpret origins, assign collective authorship, or retrofit authority where none was intended.
The author’s intent is the opposite.
This work was created deliberately, at a specific moment, by a single human, without mandate, sponsorship, or institutional backing. That fact matters only insofar as it preserves historical accuracy.
No part of this repository relies on the author’s continued involvement, presence, or consent. If the ideas herein prove correct, they should survive independently. If they do not, they should be discarded without ceremony.
This note exists to prevent confusion, not to demand recognition.
Authorship establishes where something began.
It does not determine where it goes.