ARK Conformance — Terms of Use
Mark: ARK Protocol Standard · patent pending
Authority: ARK Vector Specification — v1 (canonical, in eve-glyph-methodology)
Constitutional anchor: Article I §8 clause 8 of the United States Constitution — the same authorship clause under which the US military protects its inventive output.
Welfare register: Pour le bien-être du peuple.
What the ARK mark guarantees
An artefact bearing the ARK Protocol Standard baby-blue mark satisfies all seven invariants of the ARK Vector Specification. The mark is binary: an artefact is either in conformance or it is not. There is no halfway state, no waiver, no retroactive editing. Errata are issued as new artefacts that supersede.
The seven invariants (summary)
| # | Invariant | One-line test |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glyph presence | The EVE glyph is rendered, achromatic, in canonical proportions. The glyph is never colourised. |
| 2 | HCP geometry | Three vertices · centroid · chord · half-circle. No vertices added, removed, rotated. Any human–machine merger sits at the centroid with no wires. |
| 3 | Colour register | All semantic colour lives off the painted glyph. Blue=past, red=future, orange=velocity, green=DI merged, baby-blue=ARK, ochre=chrome. |
| 4 | Universal copyright footer | The footer below appears verbatim on every page, document, certificate, and README. |
| 5 | Welfare register | Pour le bien-être du peuple appears on the same surface as the footer. |
| 6 | Cryptographic watermark | Applied where the procedure calls for it (archives, mirrors, certificates, formal correspondence). |
| 7 | Mission | The artefact does not derive commercial value from operator content. EVE stays out of the operator's business and supports le bien-être du peuple. |
Full normative text lives in the canonical specification.
Universal copyright footer (verbatim)
© 2026 Dany Theriault. EVE "digital stem cell" glyph and glyph-based design principles — all rights reserved. Stewardship of rights of use and assignment for large public and institutional usage rests with the Pacific Utilities Design Council. Published as a time-stamped record of authorship and intent.
Pour le bien-être du peuple.
Where this conformance file applies
This file establishes the terms of use for this repository. Every artefact published from this repository must satisfy the seven invariants. The conformance checker tool (in eve-glyph-methodology/tools/ark-conformance/) validates the machine-checkable invariants — footer presence, welfare register, mission line — across the repository tree on every change.
Out of conformance
An artefact that fails any single invariant is out of conformance and is not under the EVE Glyph Design umbrella. It must not carry the EVE name, the EVE glyph, or the ARK mark. It is corrected by issuing a new artefact that supersedes it; the failing artefact is left in place, time-stamped, never retroactively altered. Immutability is the doctrine.
Inheritance
Stewardship of rights of use and assignment for large public and institutional usage rests with the Pacific Utilities Design Council. The Council is the inheritance vehicle. Admission to the umbrella is by satisfying the seven invariants only: there is no licence fee, no token gate, and no monetisation of admission.
© 2026 Dany Theriault. EVE "digital stem cell" glyph and glyph-based design principles — all rights reserved. Stewardship of rights of use and assignment for large public and institutional usage rests with the Pacific Utilities Design Council. Published as a time-stamped record of authorship and intent.
Pour le bien-être du peuple.
© 2026 Dany Theriault. EVE “digital stem cell” glyph and glyph-based design principles — all rights reserved. Stewardship of rights of use and assignment for large public and institutional usage rests with the Pacific Utilities Design Council. Published as a time-stamped record of authorship and intent.
pour le bien-être du peuple