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docs(licence-policy): A8 — explicit owner-sanctioned scoped carve-outs (#144)
Keystone audit-trail for the licence-debt clearing campaign. Records the owner's explicit scoped carve-outs (2026-05-19) so A2 (never-automated default) and the active owner-directed remediation are internally consistent. Additive; stacks on A6/A7 (#143). Refs LICENCE-DEBT-LEDGER-2026-05-18. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Signed-off-by: Jonathan D.A. Jewell <6759885+hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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as a real SPDX value (and surfaces A3 variants as non-failing
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warnings). Evidence: `LICENCE-DEBT-LEDGER-2026-05-18`.
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=== A6 — Named hard-exclusions (enforced, not docs-only)
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Two repos are permanently excluded from the SPDX policy guard
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(owner-ruled 2026-05-19). This is *enforced* in
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`rsr-template-repo/.github/workflows/spdx-policy-guard.yml` (a
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repo-name early-exit), not merely documented here:
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* **`palimpsest-license`** — it *defines* the PMPL / PLMP / PMLP
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identifiers; its spec and legal text legitimately contain many SPDX
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strings, so scanning it produces guaranteed false positives and
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could corrupt the licence specification.
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* **`repos-monorepo`** — a 297-submodule aggregate superproject that
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only mirrors the standalone source repos (and harbours `007`, see
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A1). Every hit duplicates a source repo; licence fixes belong in the
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source repos only, never here.
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=== A7 — Known multi-SPDX false positives (ignore-list)
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A small, named set of files legitimately carry more than one SPDX
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*string* without being a licence contradiction — the extra strings are
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documentation-fenced examples, UI string-literals, or codegen-emitted
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headers. These are owner-ruled false positives (2026-05-19, ledger §A +
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§C C1–C3) and the guard reports them as a non-failing `::notice`:
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|===
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| File (repo-relative) | Repo | Why it is not a contradiction
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| `PALIMPSEST.adoc` | standards | SPDX ids appear inside doc example blocks
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| `README.adoc` | llm-grace | PMPL references are explanatory prose, not a header
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| `…/App.res` | ephapax | the second id (EUPL-1.2) is a UI string-literal
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| `…/state-utils.scm`| wp-resurrect | the second id (AGPL) is a codegen-emitted header
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| `CONTRIBUTING.md` | flatracoon | extra SPDX ids are fenced documentation examples
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|===
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These remain *visible* (`::notice`, not silenced) so the list can be
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audited and tightened. Genuine contradiction §C-C4 (zotero-voyant-export
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`ECHIDNA_ARCHITECTURE_UPDATE_3LANG.md`) is **not** on this list — it is
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a real defect tracked for an owner-directed single-file fix.
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=== A8 — Explicit owner-sanctioned scoped carve-outs (2026-05-19)
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A2 forbids *automated/bulk* SPDX change as a standing default. The
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owner has issued the following **explicit, scoped, per-file-verified
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carve-outs** to discharge known licence debt. These are owner-directed
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remediation (A2's "manual, per-file, by the owner" — executed under
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explicit owner ruling, enumerated and verified, never a blind sweep),
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NOT a relaxation of A2's default:
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. *Suffix normalisation* — `PMPL-1.0` → `PMPL-1.0-or-later`. This is
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*not a relicence* (identical licence; only the SPDX expression's
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`-or-later` suffix is corrected — exactly the A3 debt). Authorised
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estate-wide, per-repo PRs, owner-merged, diff = SPDX-value-only.
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. *Repo licence correction* — `idaptik` is wholly the owner's son's
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work → `AGPL-3.0-or-later` (Rule 3); ledger ruling #1, ring-fenced by
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`idaptik/SON-WORK.boundary`.
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. *Archive relicence* — `hyperpolymath-archive` files bearing `MPL-2.0`
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that are verified 100% the owner's own authored content (no
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third-party, no vendored, no licence-text) → `PMPL-1.0-or-later`.
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Verified by read-only fan-out 2026-05-19. Genuine third-party /
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vendored / licence-text files are never rewritten.
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Every carve-out PR is per-file enumerated, SPDX-only, draft for owner
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merge, and references `LICENCE-DEBT-LEDGER-2026-05-18`. Scaffold
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placeholder/variant leaks (A5) remain fixed by *regeneration*, not by
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these carve-outs.
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== See Also
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