Open source: MIT + NOTICE + CONTRIBUTING + CI — recipes, not media

The release kit, built on a verified provenance audit of every third-party component:

• LICENSE — MIT (c) 2026 Paul Ford, except-as-noted-in-NOTICE.

• NOTICE — MicroW8 (Unlicense), lamejs (LGPL-3.0 carve-out), faustwasm (LGPL-2.1+, npm dep — its soundfile patch rescued into engine/faust/patches/ so it survives npm ci), Faust stdlib generated-code credit…

• SOURCES.md — "The media policy" up top: three bright-line tiers (free / attribution-encumbered fetch-only / unlicensed-commercial never-redistributed), and the ledger's frankest rows made frank (the sample CD…

• CONTRIBUTING.md — the social contract: the one rule, the gates a PR must keep green (178/178 matrix, determinism byte-identity, vocabulary), per-contribution-type guidance (anchors matrix-safe, pipes bring…

Verified: verify.sh — media guard: fails if any audio/video/model binary is ever tracked (the one rule, now enforced).

▶ Play it: Ballroom Leviathan — a horn-and-piano genre that plays almost entirely sampled instruments https://stellate.app/?genre=bigband&seed=8517&path=814.14134,833.14167,795.14167&xdur=13.122

4f59261 https://github.com/aboard-io/stellate/commit/4f592615f05bb2e99aef1da8c9e9a65211566e87