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Merge spec/ into specs/: one specs directory for the whole repo

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Moves TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md from the separate singular spec/
directory into specs/ (git mv, preserving history) and updates every live
cross-reference (README, CONTRIBUTING, all specs/*.md, workplans, schema
comments, source docstrings, test file) to the new path.

This resolves the spec/ vs specs/ split that history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md
flagged as a "perpetual footgun" and recommended deciding on. The historical
record of that split and the recommendation itself are left unedited in
history/ (a dated assessment, not a living document) — only README and TSD
now document the merge as resolved, with a pointer back to that history file
for context.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The Open Source Definition (OSD), maintained by the Open Source Initiative, stat
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> **Clause 6 — No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor:** "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."
TRSL's pre-conversion state requires a commercial entitlement for commercial use (`spec/TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md` §21.1). That is precisely a field-of-endeavor restriction — "may not be used commercially without payment" restricts a specific field of endeavor (business use) exactly as Clause 6's own example describes. **There is no ambiguity here**: pre-conversion TRSL cannot be described as Open Source under the OSD, full stop, regardless of how the restriction is priced, credited, or eventually lifted.
TRSL's pre-conversion state requires a commercial entitlement for commercial use (`specs/TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md` §21.1). That is precisely a field-of-endeavor restriction — "may not be used commercially without payment" restricts a specific field of endeavor (business use) exactly as Clause 6's own example describes. **There is no ambiguity here**: pre-conversion TRSL cannot be described as Open Source under the OSD, full stop, regardless of how the restriction is priced, credited, or eventually lifted.
This is not a defect to work around — it is a category TRSL should state plainly and repeatedly, because the alternative (softening the language to sound more "open" than it is) is exactly the kind of ambiguity that creates legal and reputational risk later.