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Five research artifacts under specs/research/, grounded in primary-source
license text fetched live rather than relying on training-data recall:
- TRSL-PriorArt-Survey.md: BSL 1.1, FSL, PolyForm Noncommercial, Fair
Source, Elastic License 2.0. Confirms TRSL's closed {MIT, Apache-2.0}
Future License enum and no per-Phase custom license text follows FSL's
deliberate fix for BSL's "Additional Use Grant" variability problem.
- TRSL-Terminology-Guardrails.md: confirms via OSI OSD Clause 6 that
pre-conversion TRSL cannot be Open Source; confirms README's existing
guardrail table without change.
- TRSL-FutureLicense-PatentPrecedent.md: MIT has no patent language; Apache
2.0 has an explicit contribution-scoped grant + litigation termination.
Recommends TRSL's pre-conversion phase also carry an express patent grant.
- TRSL-ContributorRights-Research.md: confirms via DCO 1.1 text that a DCO
alone is insufficient for TRSL's dual-future-license promise; recommends
a narrowly-scoped CLA over copyright assignment.
- TRSL-Jurisdiction-StandardTerms.md: deepens German §31/§32 UrhG (primary-
confirmed) and §307 BGB Transparenzgebot (secondary-confirmed, flagged
for counsel verification); corrects scope re: EU UCTD 93/13/EEC being
consumer-only vs. German AGB law covering B2B too. Ranks five terms most
needing objective definitions.
specs/TargetRevenueSourceLicense-Draft.md (T06) synthesizes all five into a
non-binding skeleton with every clause tagged [CONFIRMED BY RESEARCH],
[LEGAL], [WORKING DEFAULT], or [OPEN]. Per the T06 human-accept gate, the
workplan task stays `todo` — ready for review, not accepted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# target-revenue
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**Status:** Concept and specification only (Stage 0). Not production legal text. Do not attach TRSL to production software yet.
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The **Target Revenue Framework (TRF)** is a phased software monetization system: a defined development **Phase** accumulates **Development Credit** and **Remission Credit** against an immutable **Initial Target** until the **Milestone Release** automatically converts to a permissive **Future License** (MIT or Apache-2.0). A **Trust Service** publishes manifests, ledgers, extensions, and attestations as factual evidence — it does not decide conversion.
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> Commercial beneficiaries fund the creation and early availability of a software improvement; once the declared target is satisfied, the governed release becomes permissively open source.
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## Terminology guardrail
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Before conversion, software under TRSL is **source-available** with commercial-use restrictions. It is **not** Open Source under the [OSI Open Source Definition](https://opensource.org/osd) (field-of-endeavour non-discrimination). After the Conversion Event, the Milestone Release is available under the declared OSI-style Future License.
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| State | Accurate label |
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| --- | --- |
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| Pre-conversion, noncommercial | Source-available (permitted uses) |
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| Pre-conversion, commercial | Commercially licensed / entitlement required |
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| Post-conversion | Open source under Future License |
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## Reading order
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1. [`INTENT.md`](INTENT.md) — durable purpose and design principles
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2. [`SCOPE.md`](SCOPE.md) — what is in scope *now* vs later maturity
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3. [`spec/TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md`](spec/TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md) — normative concept draft (ultimate source; governs if it and the extracts below ever diverge)
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4. [`specs/ProductRequirementsDocument.md`](specs/ProductRequirementsDocument.md) — goals, FRs, roadmap
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5. [`specs/TechnicalSpecificationDocument.md`](specs/TechnicalSpecificationDocument.md) — schema field tables and boundaries
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6. [`specs/OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md`](specs/OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md) — provisional Stage 0 defaults
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Exploration transcript (non-normative): [`history/260728-InitialExploration.md`](history/260728-InitialExploration.md)
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Program assessment: [`history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md`](history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md)
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## Normative documents (day-to-day reference)
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Extracted and stabilized from the concept draft under `workplans/TREV-WP-0003-normative-core-extraction.md` (T01–T05 done; T06 human review still open — see that workplan). Use these for terminology, not the concept draft's prose, in ordinary implementation work:
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| Document | Covers |
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| --- | --- |
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| [`specs/TargetRevenueFrameworkCore.md`](specs/TargetRevenueFrameworkCore.md) | Seven core terms, target formula, five-verb lifecycle, nine core rules, foundational invariants |
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| [`specs/PhaseManifestSpecification.md`](specs/PhaseManifestSpecification.md) | Phase Manifest field tiers and validation rules |
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| [`specs/TargetLedgerSpecification.md`](specs/TargetLedgerSpecification.md) | Ledger entry types, hash chain, Outstanding Target fold |
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| [`specs/MonetizationExtensionSpecification.md`](specs/MonetizationExtensionSpecification.md) | Six-field extension contract, registered vs. canonical |
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**Forbidden synonyms:** do not treat undifferentiated "revenue captured" as equivalent to Development Credit (see `CONTRIBUTING.md` § Terminology); do not call pre-conversion software "Open Source" (see the guardrail table above).
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## Repository layout
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| Path | Role |
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| --- | --- |
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| `INTENT.md` | Stable purpose (change rarely) |
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| `SCOPE.md` | Living Stage 0 scope |
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| `spec/` | Normative **concept** source (`TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md`) |
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| `specs/` | Product/tech specs, working defaults, and normative extracts (WP-0003) |
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| `workplans/` | Active delivery plans |
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| `history/` | Dated non-normative exploration and assessments |
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| `examples/` | Golden Phase packages (`phase-001`, from WP-0002) |
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| `schemas/` | Machine-readable JSON Schemas (WP-0002) |
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| `src/target_revenue/` | Pure Python validators, hash chain, Outstanding Target fold, conversion detection (WP-0002) |
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| `docs/adr/` | Architecture decisions; ADR-0001 (Stage 0 library stack) **accepted** 2026-07-29 |
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| `specs/research/` | TRSL prior-art and legal-adjacent research (WP-0001) briefing `specs/TargetRevenueSourceLicense-Draft.md` |
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**`spec/` vs `specs/`:** The concept document predates the plural `specs/` directory and remains under `spec/` so history and cross-references stay stable. New product/tech artifacts go under `specs/`. Do not move the concept file without a deliberate migration note.
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## Active work
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| Workplan | Focus |
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| --- | --- |
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| [TREV-WP-0001](workplans/TREV-WP-0001-license-prior-art-research.md) | Prior-art research (T01–T05 done) → non-binding TRSL draft skeleton (T06 ready for human review) |
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| [TREV-WP-0002](workplans/TREV-WP-0002-trust-service-foundation.md) | Schemas, pure Outstanding Target fold, golden fixture — **finished** |
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| [TREV-WP-0003](workplans/TREV-WP-0003-normative-core-extraction.md) | Extract stable normative core docs — T01–T05 done, T06 human review open |
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Hub index: [`WORK-RECORDS.md`](WORK-RECORDS.md) · brief: [`.custodian-brief.md`](.custodian-brief.md)
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## Stage 0 library (schemas, pure fold, validators)
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WP-0002 delivers an **offline, dependency-light library** — not a hosted
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Trust Service (`SCOPE.md` §3). It validates the schemas in `schemas/`,
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computes the pure Outstanding Target fold, verifies the SHA-256 hash chain,
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and checks Monetization Extension conformance.
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```bash
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pip install -e ".[dev]"
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python3 -m pytest tests/ # 32 tests, no network required
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python3 scripts/generate_golden_phase.py # regenerate examples/phase-001/ledger.json
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```
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The implementation stack (Python, `jsonschema`, `pytest`, `hatchling`) is
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recorded in [`docs/adr/ADR-0001-stage0-library-stack.md`](docs/adr/ADR-0001-stage0-library-stack.md),
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**accepted 2026-07-29**.
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## What this repo does not claim yet
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- Final legal license text or enforceable TRSL
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- A running production Trust Service
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- A finalized degeneration formula (research + working defaults only)
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- That any real product Phase is governed by TRF today
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See [`SCOPE.md`](SCOPE.md) and [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## License
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Repository contents are under [MIT No Attribution](LICENSE) unless a file states otherwise. That is the license of *this repository*, not the Target Revenue Source License for third-party software.
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