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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions .machine_readable/licensing-policy.toml
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Expand Up @@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ meaning = "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International"
scope = "narrative documentation (*.adoc, *.md) in sole-owner repos"
status = "owner ruling 2026-06-04 — docs are CC-BY-SA-4.0; code stays MPL-2.0"

[github_display] # Addendum A8 (2026-07-01)
resolved_to = "MPL-2.0"
reason = "GitHub surfaces only one repo licence (licensee-detected from root LICENSE). Rule 1's per-file MPL/CC-BY split cannot be shown at repo level, so the single displayed licence is resolved to MPL-2.0."
root_license = "MPL-2.0 text (drives GitHub's detected licence badge)"
both_texts_present = ["LICENSES/MPL-2.0.txt", "LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt"]
prose_licence = "CC-BY-SA-4.0 declared per-file (SPDX header) + LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt; NOT via a second root licence file"
note = "display resolution, not relicensing; Rule 1 unchanged"

[palimpsest_carveout] # Rule 2 — narrow, NOT the default
spdx = "PMPL-1.0-or-later"
applies = "EXACTLY three repos: palimpsest-license, palimpsest-plasma, consent-aware-http (the last prospectively)"
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25 changes: 25 additions & 0 deletions LICENCE-POLICY.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -244,6 +244,31 @@ audited and tightened. Genuine contradiction §C-C4 (zotero-voyant-export
`ECHIDNA_ARCHITECTURE_UPDATE_3LANG.md`) is **not** on this list — it is
a real defect tracked for an owner-directed single-file fix.

=== A8 — GitHub single-licence display resolved to MPL-2.0 (2026-07-01)

GitHub surfaces only *one* repository licence — the one its licensee
detector reads from the root `LICENSE` file. Rule 1 splits per-file SPDX
two ways (MPL-2.0 for code, CC-BY-SA-4.0 for prose), which GitHub cannot
represent at the repo level. The estate therefore resolves the single
GitHub-displayed licence to **MPL-2.0**: every repo's root `LICENSE`
carries the MPL-2.0 text, so the GitHub sidebar shows `MPL-2.0`. Both
canonical texts remain present in every repo — `LICENSES/MPL-2.0.txt`
and `LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt` (REUSE-style) — and prose stays
CC-BY-SA-4.0 by its per-file SPDX header. This is a *display resolution,
not a relicensing*; Rule 1 is unchanged.

Mechanical consequences (what every repo ships):

* Root `LICENSE` = MPL-2.0 text (drives GitHub's detected licence).
* `LICENSES/` carries *both* `MPL-2.0.txt` and `CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt`.
* Prose files declare CC-BY-SA-4.0 via their own SPDX header plus the
`LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt` text — not via a second root licence file.

A separate `LICENSE-docs` (CC-BY-SA-4.0) file, as a few repos ship, is an
acceptable equivalent for surfacing the prose licence, but the `LICENSES/`
REUSE directory is the canonical carrier and the root `LICENSE` stays
MPL-2.0 so the single GitHub display resolves as above.

== See Also

* `PALIMPSEST.adoc` (this directory) — full narrative
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