01 · Later research manuscript
PDF and TeX
Includes an empirical evaluation and its experimental discussion. Use the exact file version when citing results.
Research and sources
Read the argument and inspect its evidence
The QGPL research files explain the licensing proposal, its cryptographic design and its limits. Their versions have different scopes.
Featured manuscript
Author manuscript
Binding Post-Quantum Cryptography to Copyleft
The Quantum General Public License v3.0
Later PDF and TeX manuscript
A proposal with reported experiments
The PDF and its TeX source discuss release signatures, metadata overhead and verification cases. They are the later research manuscript in this repository. The reported measurements should be read with the methods and limitations in that manuscript.
This site presents author research material for review. It does not claim peer review, journal acceptance or independent reproduction of the reported experiments.
Version history
Two documents with different scopes
02 · Earlier conceptual draft
Position and design paper
The Markdown document is dated 24 May 2026 and identifies itself as Draft 0.1. It introduces the construction and explicitly does not report empirical measurements. It is retained as an earlier document.
These research files describe QGPL 3.0. They do not implement or establish the separate 3.1 review draft.
Inspect and discuss
Read beyond a successful signature
A signature check concerns particular bytes and a particular key. A research claim also depends on the design of an experiment, the data used and the assumptions behind its interpretation. Keep those questions separate.
Inspect the source repositoryUseful questions for reviewers
- Which manuscript and experiment version produced the claim?
- Can another researcher repeat the procedure with the supplied material?
- Which checks concern integrity, issuer trust, time or content?
- Which legal and operational assumptions remain untested?
Citation
Cite a specific document
Include the document title, author, year and file URL. When discussing measured results, cite the PDF manuscript rather than the earlier conceptual draft. Record the file version or digest in your own research notes.
Grigaliūnas, Š. (2026).
Binding Post-Quantum Cryptography to Copyleft:
The Quantum General Public License v3.0 and an Empirical Evaluation
of Mandatory Quantum-Safe Distribution Integrity.
Author manuscript.
https://qgpl.org/docs/paper/qgpl_quantum_safe_copyleft.pdf