licence_status

Category: diagnostics
Access: read
Audience: ordinary (an ordinary user normally calls this directly)

Purpose

Licence compliance information for this SHAMPOO copy. Call it to see whether the copy presents FREE or a valid paid artefact; the answer never changes what the software can do.

Arguments

Takes no arguments.

Result

Object with licence (FREE or VALID PERPETUAL LICENCE), artefact_present, and legacy_preset (display-only guess for older artefacts).

Boundaries

Compliance and display information only: the artefact never unlocks code and its absence never refuses. The legacy preset guess is display compatibility, never authority.

Lifecycle / side effects

Pure read; zero writes by construction.

Errors

Takes no arguments; backend failures surface as transport errors.

Example

{}

Result shape:

{
  "artefact_present": false,
  "legacy_preset": "",
  "licence": "FREE"
}