{
  "updated": "2026-09-09",
  "lab": "Slid Phi Labs",
  "owner": "Corey Tasz",
  "inbox": "corey@slidphilabs.com",
  "site": "https://www.slidphilabs.com",
  "terms": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md",
  "machine": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/specialist",
  "api": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/api/specialist",
  "plain": "Every product is dual-licensed and public: copyleft, or a paid grant to ship closed. Hosted compression runs every pathway we own and keeps the smallest file that still restores. Signing keys, Chamber kernel secrets, and live customer data stay operator-only.",
  "rule": "Public source under dual license. Copyleft or a paid grant. Hosted compression uses every own pathway. Keys, kernel secrets, and AUTH_DIR stay operator-only.",
  "dual": {
    "chooser": "You pick copyleft or the commercial grant. Both are written.",
    "copyleft_or_commercial": [
      { "name": "pulsar", "copyleft": "GPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "pulsar-exception", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pulsar" },
      { "name": "Combined GC", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "gc-year", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/gc", "hosted": true },
      { "name": "LBR1 / PCC / splb", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "gc-year", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/gc", "hosted": true },
      { "name": "CuNi", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "cuni-exception", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/cuni" },
      { "name": "Chamber SDK", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "chamber-year", "usd": 99, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/chamber" },
      { "name": "Agent-Rider", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "rider-year", "usd": 790, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/rider" },
      { "name": "Warrant", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "warrant-year", "usd": 290, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/warrant" },
      { "name": "spl-pay-per-suite", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "gc-month", "usd": 49, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/docs" },
      { "name": "TRU8 public zeros demo", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "pulsar-exception", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/specialist" },
      { "name": "Slid Phi Labs public site and clients", "copyleft": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "sku": "gc-year", "usd": 490, "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/" }
    ],
    "operator_only": ["Agent-Rider signing keys", "Chamber kernel secrets", "AUTH_DIR customer data"]
  },
  "never_on_this_surface": [
    "Agent-Rider signing keys",
    "Chamber kernel secrets",
    "AUTH_DIR customer data",
    "gzip, brotli, xz, or bzip2 sold as ours"
  ],
  "lanes": {
    "fill": {
      "occupant": "zeros demo",
      "public_name": "zeros",
      "license": "public demo",
      "runs_here": true,
      "plain": "Zeros demo. All-zero data → 8 bytes, and you get the original back. Free on POST /api/specialist. For real files, buy PCC.",
      "commercial": "This demo is free. Everyday files use PCC.",
      "flagship": "1e6 zero bytes → 8 B, round-trip"
    },
    "struct_text": {
      "occupant": "pulsar 2.5.0 + STR1",
      "public_name": "pulsar",
      "license": "GPL-3.0-or-later (pulsar) / AGPL-3.0-or-later OR Commercial (STR1)",
      "runs_here": true,
      "source": "https://github.com/ceedot-rock/pulsar-best",
      "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pulsar",
      "commercial_sku": "pulsar-exception",
      "silesia": "pulsar 2.5.0 official 55,745,438 / 211,938,580, 12/12 DECODE_OK",
      "plain": "pulsar is the free GPLv3 compressor (OSCB 55,745,438). STR1 is our structure transform on the PCC machine. $490/yr (SKU pulsar-exception) to embed pulsar in one closed product.",
      "commercial": "GPLv3 in public for pulsar. Closed-source embed needs a written exception. STR1 rides the PCC year grant."
    },
    "archive": {
      "occupant": "PCC",
      "public_name": "PCC",
      "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later OR Commercial (PCC year)",
      "runs_here": true,
      "engine": "Combined GC + LBR1 + pulsar + LZM1 + STR1 + ZMX1 + NNC1 + wraps",
      "page": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/gc",
      "skus": ["gc-day", "gc-month", "gc-year", "lab-pass"],
      "plain": "Hosted lossless compressor. $9/day · $49/mo (200 GB) · $490/yr (2,000 GB). Then 8¢/GB. First 2 GB/month free. Source is dual-licensed. PCC year is the closed-product grant. Official 12-file numbers live on /silesia.",
      "commercial": "AGPL in public. Closed-product grant is PCC year. Keys stay operator-only."
    },
    "general": {
      "occupant": "LBR1 + LZW1 + LZM1",
      "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later OR Commercial",
      "runs_here": true,
      "plain": "LBR1, own LZ wrap (LZW1), and LZMA-style LZM1 run on the hosted PCC machine. Dual license: AGPL-3.0-or-later, or a PCC year seat. LZM1 is a reimplementation, not host xz.",
      "commercial": "SKU gc-year. Hosted compression already uses this pathway."
    },
    "paq": {
      "occupant": "PCAQ + ZMX1 + NNC1",
      "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later OR Commercial",
      "runs_here": true,
      "house_caps": { "PCAQ": 262144, "ZMX1": 1048576, "NNC1": 262144 },
      "plain": "Own mixers. PCAQ 256 KiB, ZMX1 1 MiB house, NNC1 256 KiB house. Not paq8px. Not cmix. Those stay GPL research opponents.",
      "commercial": "SKU gc-year. Hosted jobs over the mixer caps skip them."
    }
  },
  "skus": {
    "pulsar-exception": {
      "usd": 490,
      "period": "year",
      "plain": "Pay $490/year to put pulsar inside one closed-source product for one year. pulsar source stays GPLv3. This is not PCC.",
      "grants": "Written exception to distribute pulsar inside one closed-source product for one year. pulsar source stays GPL-3.0-or-later.",
      "never_includes": ["Combined GC", "PCC residual", "LBR1", "ASMD", "Chamber kernel", "Agent-Rider keys"],
      "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=pulsar-exception"
    },
    "cuni-exception": {
      "usd": 490,
      "period": "year",
      "plain": "Pay $490/year to ship CuNi inside one closed product for one year. The public playground stays free.",
      "grants": "Written exception for one closed product using CuNi, one year.",
      "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=cuni-exception"
    },
    "gc-day": { "usd": 9, "plain": "PCC hosted compressor, one day of access. No source.", "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=gc-day" },
    "gc-month": { "usd": 49, "plain": "PCC hosted compressor, one month of access. No source.", "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=gc-month" },
    "gc-year": { "usd": 490, "plain": "PCC hosted compressor, one year of access. No source.", "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=gc-year" },
    "lab-pass": { "usd": 668, "plain": "One year of Chamber + PCC + TruGame for $668. Does not include Rider.", "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=lab-pass", "includes": ["chamber", "gc", "trugame"], "excludes": ["rider"] },
    "oss-support": {
      "usd": 199,
      "plain": "$199 for help with an already-public GPLv3 library. Not a license to embed, and not PCC.",
      "grants": "Commercial support for an already-public GPLv3 library. Not an engine grant.",
      "pay": "https://www.slidphilabs.com/pay?sku=oss-support"
    }
  }
}