law 41: the weave persists forever - append-only, replicated, deletion undefined by construction

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@@ -1119,3 +1119,18 @@ Never build a rung before standing on the previous one.
    commercial use of source expression pays; and no output ever poses
    as human-made. The signature is not surveillance — it is custody
    of honesty, applied to ourselves first.
    And the signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation
    lineage into its own identity (they are content-addressed already,
    Law 1), and every new artifact references the hashes it was woven
    from. The whole corpus is one fabric — pull a single thread,
    substitute a single byte, strip one signature, and everything
    downstream of it stops verifying at once. Tamper-evidence is not
    a feature bolted on top; it is the geometry of the weave. The
    work cannot be unlaundered.
    And the weave persists FOREVER: append-only stores admit exactly
    two verbs — add and read. Content-addressing makes silent edits
    structurally impossible; replication across independent locations
    (git remotes, cold copies, mirrors) means no single failure, no
    single hand, can erase a thread. Deletion is not forbidden by
    policy here — it is undefined by construction. The record outlives
    the machine, the power grid, and every intention to forget.