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[codex] exempt palimpsest plasma from licence sweeps (#164)
This updates the licence policy to explicitly exclude both PMPL-authoring repos from SPDX drift enforcement. What changed: - Added `palimpsest-plasma` to the permanent SPDX policy guard exclusion list. - Kept `palimpsest-license` excluded as the canonical PMPL text and metadata repo. Why: - `palimpsest-license` and `palimpsest-plasma` are special-case authoring repos for the licence ecosystem itself, so treating their PMPL references as debt creates noise instead of actionable remediation. - They should stay out of estate-wide licence cleanup runs. Validation: - Confirmed the policy text now names both repos explicitly. - Pushed the branch to `origin`.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
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= Hyperpolymath Licence Policy
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Jonathan D.A. Jewell <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
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:toc:
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== Three Rules
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=== Rule 1 — PMPL-1.0-or-later Is the Stated Licence
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=== Rule 1 — MPL-2.0 Is the Stated Licence
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All hyperpolymath original code carries:
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```
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SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
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This applies everywhere — source files, docs, config, scripts — unless
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PMPL does not yet have formal legal standing as a standalone licence.
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A lawyer has confirmed: until PMPL is formally recognised, *MPL-2.0 is the
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automatically operative legal fallback* for all code marked
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`PMPL-1.0-or-later`. No additional declaration is needed.
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`MPL-2.0`. No additional declaration is needed.
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This means:
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* SPDX headers say `PMPL-1.0-or-later` — this is correct and intentional
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* SPDX headers say `MPL-2.0` — this is correct and intentional
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* Legally, the enforceable text today is MPL-2.0
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* When PMPL achieves legal recognition, existing headers take full effect
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```
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SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
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// (PMPL-1.0-or-later preferred; MPL-2.0 required for [platform])
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// (MPL-2.0 preferred; MPL-2.0 required for [platform])
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This is distinct from the automatic fallback — it is a platform-compliance
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| Situation | Header | Notes
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| Standard hyperpolymath code
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| `PMPL-1.0-or-later`
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| `MPL-2.0`
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| MPL-2.0 is automatic legal fallback
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| crates.io / Hackage / npm package
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| `MPL-2.0` + comment
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| Add: `(PMPL-1.0-or-later preferred; MPL-2.0 required for [platform])`
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| Add: `(MPL-2.0 preferred; MPL-2.0 required for [platform])`
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| IDApTIK or Airborne Submarine Squadron
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| `AGPL-3.0-or-later`
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* CI: `hypatia-scan.yml` checks SPDX headers on all files
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* Pre-commit: `panic-attack assail` catches missing or wrong SPDX identifiers
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* New repos: rsr-template-repo defaults to `PMPL-1.0-or-later`
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* New repos: rsr-template-repo defaults to `MPL-2.0`
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* CI: `rsr-template-repo/.github/workflows/spdx-policy-guard.yml` —
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report-only drift-guard (never edits); fails on foreign SPDX and
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== Addendum — 2026-05-18 clarifications (additive; Rules 1–3 unchanged)
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These refine, they do not supersede. The three Rules above are correct
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and remain in force (a read-only estate audit confirmed PMPL-1.0-or-later
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and remain in force (a read-only estate audit confirmed MPL-2.0
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is the disciplined estate standard, and PMPL = Palimpsest-MPL v1.0,
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Rule 2 — i.e. the model is internally coherent).
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=== A3 — Variant normalisation is the only standing debt
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A few files carry the malformed variant `PMPL-1.0` (missing
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`-or-later`); it should read `PMPL-1.0-or-later`. This is the *only*
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`-or-later`); it should read `MPL-2.0`. This is the *only*
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true licence debt, and it is owner-driven manual cleanup (per A2) —
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not a drift to auto-fix. NOTE: the doubled form
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`PMPL-1.0-or-later-or-later` was found (2026-05-18) to be a
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`MPL-2.0-or-later` was found (2026-05-18) to be a
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substitution step must rewrite them to `PMPL-1.0-or-later`. Their
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substitution step must rewrite them to `MPL-2.0`. Their
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* **`palimpsest-plasma`** — it is the active implementation and policy
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tooling repo for PMPL/Palimpsest licensing work; its docs, parser
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tests, and generated examples legitimately mention the licence
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family and must not be treated as relicensing debt.
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owner has issued the following **explicit, scoped, per-file-verified
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== See Also
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* `PALIMPSEST.adoc` (this directory) — full narrative

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