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Backs the License/Commercial Use Agreement V1C1 candidates with a research
plan covering Germany, the rest of the EU, the US, the UK, Argentina (Latin
America anchor), India, China, representative African jurisdictions,
representative Asia-Pacific jurisdictions beyond India/China, and a
cross-cutting global choice-of-law/choice-of-forum strategy task.
Ten tasks: T01-T08 one per jurisdiction/family, T09 the cross-cutting
choice-of-law mechanism ("wherever"), T10 a synthesis that proposes (but
does not itself apply, per the human-accept gate) resolutions for the
governing-law, liability-cap, indemnification, and data-protection Appendix
A items in both V1C1 documents. Deliberately scoped as multiple targeted
tasks rather than one generic "international law" task, since prior
research already showed enforceability norms diverge in ways that don't
compress into a single finding (German AGB law covers B2B, EU consumer law
doesn't).
This workplan is planning only — no research has been executed yet.
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. [`specs/TargetRevenueLicenseConcept.md`](specs/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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## TRSL license candidate
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[`specs/TargetRevenueSourceLicense-V1C1.md`](specs/TargetRevenueSourceLicense-V1C1.md) is the first candidate written as actual operative license text (Version 1, Candidate 1) rather than a bracket-annotated skeleton — **preliminary, not final, not for production use** (see the notice at the top of that file). It is grounded in the prior-art and jurisdiction research archived under `history/260729-TRSL-*.md`, and supersedes the earlier skeleton now archived at `history/260729-TargetRevenueSourceLicense-Draft.md`.
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[`specs/TargetRevenueCommercialUseAgreement-V1C1.md`](specs/TargetRevenueCommercialUseAgreement-V1C1.md) is the companion Commercial Use Agreement template the License refers to but does not itself set terms for — same preliminary-candidate status, but **less** mature than the License: it had no dedicated prior-art research pass, and its Section 13 (Indemnification) is deliberately left unwritten rather than guessed.
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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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| `specs/` | Concept source, product/tech specs, working defaults, and normative extracts |
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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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**`spec/` vs `specs/` (resolved 2026-07-29):** the concept document originally lived under a separate singular `spec/` directory, which `history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md` flagged as a "perpetual footgun." It has been merged into `specs/` alongside the product/tech specs and normative extracts — there is now one specs directory for the whole repository. The historical split, and the decision to merge it, remain visible in `history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md` (unedited, as a dated record) rather than rewritten here.
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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, archived to `history/`) → TRSL V1C1 license candidate (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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| [TREV-WP-0004](workplans/TREV-WP-0004-global-jurisdiction-research.md) | Global jurisdictional research backing the License/CUA candidates (Germany/EU, US, UK, Argentina, India, China, Africa, Asia-Pacific, choice-of-law) — planned, not started |
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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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