Attributions, Credits & Licenses

Sati Chant is created to honor, support, and facilitate the daily practice of monastics and lay disciples worldwide. In accordance with Apple App Store Review Guideline 5.2 (Intellectual Property) and international copyright standards, this document comprehensively declares the intellectual property status, provenance, authorship, and licensing terms governing all canonical scriptures, English translations, Chinese translations, liturgical arrangements, and recorded chanting audio embedded within or streamed by the application.

• Canonical Content: The original Pāli verses, devotional homages, refuge formulas, monastic precepts, and discourses (suttas)—including the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta, Ādittapariyāya Sutta, Kāraṇīya Mettā Sutta, Ratana Sutta, Khandha Paritta, Mora Paritta, Dhajagga Paritta, and associated paritta protective chants.
• Historical Provenance: The Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka: Sutta Piṭaka, Vinaya Piṭaka, and Paritta compendiums) preserved by the Theravāda Buddhist Sangha since the First Buddhist Council in Rājagaha (~543 BCE).
• Legal Copyright Status: Public Domain Worldwide. Ancient canonical Buddhist texts belong to the shared spiritual heritage of all humanity and have no commercial copyright ownership.

• Content: Line-by-line Chinese translations for all liturgical texts, suttas, reflections, and parittas in both Simplified Chinese (简体中文) and Traditional Chinese (繁體中文).
• Source & Lineage: Rooted in classical Chinese Buddhist translations harmonized with contemporary Theravāda forest tradition chanting manuals, including Daily Dhamma Reflection: Pāḷi Chanting (巴利课诵集), Santi Forest Monastery Chanting Book (山地森林僧苑), Santisukhavana, and venerable Dhamma Dāna translation collectives.
• Copyright & Heritage Status: Freely offered to the world under the sacred Theravāda principle of Dhamma Dāna (the gift of Dhamma excels all other gifts). All translations are provided without commercial restriction for personal and group spiritual cultivation.

• Acoustic Environment: Recorded within the sacred monastic boundary (sīmā) of Metta Forest Monastery. The audio preserves the natural resonance and authentic chanting cadence (Magadha style) of the forest tradition.
• Mastering & Calibration: Audio timestamps and sentence alignments are configured to facilitate educational reading and synchronized meditation. Audio waveforms are decoded locally using Apple's native AVFoundation engine without lossy re-encoding or destructive alterations.
• Silence Preservation: In honor of temple decorum, audio automatically pauses when headphones or AirPods disconnect, ensuring no accidental public playback in meditation halls.

• Design System: Designed with minimalist monastic aesthetics—evoking incense smoke, monastic robes (kāsāya), aged scriptures, and temple stone lanterns.
• Typography: Rendered using Apple's native system typefaces (San Francisco, New York serif, and system Chinese fonts) under standard Apple Developer platform agreements.
• Codebase: Written exclusively in native Swift 6 and SwiftUI, utilizing Apple standard frameworks (AVFoundation, SwiftUI, Combine, UniformTypeIdentifiers). Free of third-party commercial SDKs.

In accordance with monastic discipline (Vinaya) and the teachings of Gotama Buddha:

• The Dhamma is priceless and cannot be bought or sold.
• Sati Chant is, and will forever remain, completely free of charge.
• There will never be subscription tiers, 'pro' features, banner advertisements, or paywalls.
• All liturgical audio and translations are preserved as a pure offering of spiritual goodwill.

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