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@@ -64,6 +64,45 @@ MoCapAnything as the sanctioned *creature* engine (free upside, blocks nothing)
 HSMR's MPS-runnability so we're ready when a license lands. I will **not** build the human v1
 pipeline on an NC model without your explicit go (that's B).
 
+## Path A — SKEL commercial-licence email (READY TO SEND — John sends it himself)
+
+Parallel risk-retirement (session-5 order 2). Path B ships meanwhile; if MPI grants a licence
+the grey area in Decision 1 disappears with **zero pipeline rework** (same HSMR/SKEL engine).
+**Do not wait on the reply.** John: fill the two `[brackets]`, send from your address to
+`ps-license@tue.mpg.de`. I can't send email or create the account — this is yours.
+
+> **To:** ps-license@tue.mpg.de
+> **Subject:** Commercial licence enquiry — SKEL body model (indie game developer)
+>
+> Dear Perceiving Systems licensing team,
+>
+> I'm a solo independent game developer based in Australia. I'd like to enquire about a
+> commercial licence for the **SKEL body model** (v1.1.1, from skel.is.tue.mpg.de).
+>
+> **Use case.** I'm building a small in-house tool that recovers 3D human motion from ordinary
+> single-camera video of myself, to author animation clips for stylised characters in my own
+> indie games. SKEL is used inside the pipeline at inference time (via the HSMR pose-recovery
+> model) to estimate body pose.
+>
+> **Redistribution: none.** The SKEL/BSM model files stay on my own machine — I do not
+> redistribute them or any Max-Planck-derived asset. What ships in the games is only the
+> resulting joint **motion**, retargeted onto my own separately-authored character skeletons
+> (a Mixamo-style rig). No SKEL mesh, shape space, or model file is included or exposed in any
+> shipped product.
+>
+> **Scale.** Small and indie: modest commercial revenue, a single developer, no external funding.
+>
+> Could you let me know whether an **indie / small-developer commercial licence** is available
+> for this kind of in-pipeline, non-redistributed use, and the terms and any fee? I'm happy to
+> provide more detail on the pipeline or sign whatever agreement you need.
+>
+> Thank you,
+> [your name]
+> monsterrobot.party · [contact email]
+
+If MPI replies with terms, record the outcome here and flip Decision 1 from Path B to Path A
+(nothing in the pipeline changes — same engine, the licence just retires the NC risk).
+
 ## Decision 2 — clear m3ultra disk (RESOLVED pending reboot, 2026-07-17)
 
 Was 98% full (20 GB free). Deleted `unsloth/GLM-4.6-GGUF` (147 GB, re-downloadable, 0 code