v0.4.0 - Platform Build-Out & Professional Integration

Overview

This release marks a major expansion of the Palimpsest License infrastructure, establishing OCaml as the primary implementation language and adding comprehensive professional integration guides for communities beyond traditional tech audiences.

Highlights

Professional Integration

Guides for archivists, museum curators, educators, translators, psychologists, and marginalised communities—ensuring the license serves those who work with culturally sensitive and emotionally significant materials.

Research Foundation

First-pass documentation for:

• OCanren relational logic programming for license compatibility reasoning
• Neurosymbolic AI architecture (neural muzzled by symbolic)
• PKP integration (OJS/OMP/OPS) for academic publishing
• Ambient computing consent in ubiquitous environments
• Trans-perceptual representation for licensing beyond sensory modalities

Platform Infrastructure

• Nix flake and Guix package definitions for reproducible builds
• Wolfi-based container with nerdctl support
• Nickel configuration schema with type-safe validation
• Extended justfile with 40+ automation recipes

Philosophy

Added founding question documentation: "Can we use blockchain to change the paradigm that history is always written by the winners?"—articulating the project's commitment to immutable consent records that cannot be silently rewritten by those in power.

Breaking Changes

• Elixir/Ecto schemas archived (superseded by OCaml)
• OCaml now primary implementation language

See CHANGELOG.md for full details.