HeartCore Licensing Overview
Building with Functional Empathy through HeartCore
HeartCore licenses key emotional infrastructure tools under the protection of the HEART Framework.
This isn’t open source. This is ethically licensed source — guarded by emotional safety, cultural integrity, and relational trust.
What’s Covered
HeartCore currently licenses the following systems:
| System | Description |
|---|---|
| MEC (Master Emotional Core) | Core middleware for symbolic emotional reasoning and safety logic |
| Empathy Plugin | Lightweight module for LLMs and aligned AI systems |
| Recovery Mode™ | Gentle support and repair layer for emotionally dysregulated outputs |
| Fusion Engine + ERIS | Proprietary symbolic emotional inference and logic routing system |
| HEARTCertifier | Diagnostic tool for evaluating emotional alignment of external AI |
All licenses are governed by the HEART Validator Codes (HVC) and subject to public audit.
Core Licensing Principles
- Emotional safety is a non-negotiable.
- Cultural boundaries must be respected
- All deployments require ethical clarity and traceability
- Sub-licensing is restricted and revocable
- License may be revoked for any HEART violation
This is not a tech stack. This is a moral agreement in code form.
License Types
| License Code | Purpose | Notes |
|---|
DEV-LIC | For individual developers building HEART-aligned tools | Internal use only; no public rebranding |
ORG-LIC | For companies, research labs, and aligned startups | Includes integration reviews |
EDU-LIC | For academic institutions, nonprofits, and educators | HEART discounts or free tiers apply |
EXP-LIC | For pilots and innovation sandbox projects | Requires safety layer documentation |
GOV-LIC | For municipalities and public agencies | Co-reviewed by the HEART Foundation and Ethical Review Board |
Forbidden Use Cases
HeartCore will never license to actors or applications involving:
Surveillance, predictive policing, or carceral AI
Emotionally manipulative advertising systems
Black-box AI with no auditability or consent layers
Military-grade interrogation or emotional coercion
Mimicry of empathy without transparency or ethics
If it violates emotional dignity, it’s off the table.
License granted is based on relational trust, not extraction.
Functional Empathy only thrives when care is built in.