target-revenue/specs/profiles/phase-sponsorship.md
tegwick 1fb7212e2d Implement WP-0015-T02: extract policy/profile spec files
specs/policies/linear-longstop-v0.md extracted from
OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md Q7's prose, with policy_id/title
frontmatter -- Q7 now records only the adoption decision, pointing at
this file for the formula itself.

Six specs/profiles/*.md files extracted from
CanonicalMonetizationProfiles.md's per-profile sections (#1-6), each
with extension_id/title frontmatter matching the ids already used in
real Phase Manifests. CanonicalMonetizationProfiles.md keeps the
cross-profile summary and non-goals sections, now pointing at the
extracted files instead of containing their content.

DevelopmentEffortCalculatorConcept.md gets calculator_id/revision/title
frontmatter for consistency, no move (already conformed as one file per
model). Checked for stale cross-references before editing -- nothing
in the repo links to the removed section anchors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 20:49:22 +02:00

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extension_id title
trsl:extension:phase-sponsorship@1.0 Phase Sponsorship

Phase Sponsorship

What the payer receives: no direct product access at all in the minimal case — this profile is for financial support explicitly directed at funding a named Phase's development, structurally closer to a grant or sponsorship than a purchase.

Worked narrative: a foundation, a downstream adopter, or an interested party wants to fund a specific Phase's completion without necessarily receiving a Commercial Entitlement themselves (though nothing prevents combining this with one). Because there is no natural default split (unlike a hosting fee, a sponsorship payment has no "cost" component to separate from "development" component), the sponsoring party and Licensor must explicitly declare what fraction of the sponsorship is development allocation at the time it's recorded. Unrestricted general project sponsorship — support for the project as a whole, not any one Phase — is never assigned to a Phase by default, since assigning it silently would let a Licensor manufacture Development Credit for a struggling Phase by recharacterizing general goodwill funding after the fact.

Default development_allocation: explicitly declared per transaction, no numeric default.

Fixture: examples/phase-001/extensions/phase-sponsorship.json.