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| **2. The 007 repo** | All Rights Reserved (ARR) | `hyperpolymath/007` specifically. Out-of-scope for any normalisation, scanning, or labelling. Surface to owner only. |
| **3. Shared with son (Joshua)** | `AGPL-3.0-or-later` | Repos with son as co-author/maintainer. Examples: `idaptik`, `paint-type`. Permanent. |
| **4. Third-party / forks** | DO NOT TOUCH | Whatever upstream chose. Never sweep, never normalise. Flag as out-of-scope if it surfaces in an audit. |
| **5. Palimpsest carve-out (extremely narrow)** | `PMPL-1.0-or-later` | EXACTLY three repos: `palimpsest-license` + `palimpsest-plasma` + `metadatastician/consent-aware-web`. The first two retroactively; `metadatastician/consent-aware-web` **prospectively only** (don't flip existing content). NOWHERE ELSE. |
| **5. Palimpsest register** | `PMPL-1.0-or-later` | **Only repos named in the register** in `LICENCE-POLICY.adoc` Rule 2 — currently five: `palimpsest-license`, `palimpsest-plasma`, `metadatastician/consent-aware-web` (prospectively only — don't flip existing content), `insolvency-tycoon`, `sim-public-relations`. The cap of three was lifted 2026-08-26 as the Palimpsest family develops; the register is a growing **allowlist**, so PMPL in an unlisted repo is still drift. `LICENCE-POLICY.adoc` is authoritative — do not duplicate the list's contents here. |

### Hard rules for agents

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`LICENSES/` directory carries the canonical text for both
(`MPL-2.0.txt`, `CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt`).

=== Rule 2 — PMPL Is a Narrow Carve-Out (Three Repos Only)
=== Rule 2 — PMPL Is an Explicit Register (Currently Five Repos)

`PMPL-1.0-or-later` (Palimpsest-MPL) is **not** the estate default. Per the
estate licence policy (link:.claude/CLAUDE.md[.claude/CLAUDE.md] §License
Policy), PMPL applies to *exactly three* repositories and nowhere else:
`PMPL-1.0-or-later` (Palimpsest-MPL) is **not** the estate default. It applies
only to repositories **named in the register below**.

Owner ruling 2026-08-26: the previous *"exactly three and nowhere else"* cap is
lifted. The Palimpsest family is under active development — PMPL first, then
compatible variants adding the Palimpsest and post-quantum layers where the base
licence permits derivation — so more repositories will move onto it over time.

**The register still binds.** This is a growing allowlist, not an open door: a
PMPL declaration in a repository *not* named here is drift, and remains
detectable as such. Adding a name is an owner decision and a one-line change to
this list.

==== The register

* `palimpsest-license` — defines the PMPL identifiers
* `palimpsest-plasma` — the PMPL implementation / tooling repo
* `consent-aware-web` (formerly `consent-aware-http`, extracted to `metadatastician/consent-aware-web` 2026-08-07) — **prospectively** (do not flip existing content)
* `insolvency-tycoon` — added 2026-08-26
* `sim-public-relations` — added 2026-08-26

==== On the wider Palimpsest family

The intent is to mirror the common licences with a `P`-prefixed variant —
`PMIT`, `PBSD` and so on — each adding the Palimpsest and post-quantum layers.
**Only PMPL exists today.**

One legal constraint is worth recording before effort goes into the others,
because it is not symmetric:

* **MPL-2.0 §10.3 expressly permits derivation** — *"you may create and use a
modified version of this License if you rename the license and remove any
references to the name of the license steward"*. That clause is why PMPL is
legitimate; Mozilla anticipated exactly this.
* **The GNU licences expressly forbid it** — every GPL/AGPL text carries
*"Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license
document, but changing it is not allowed."* A `PAGPL` therefore **cannot** be
produced by editing AGPL text the way PMPL was produced from MPL. Achieving
AGPL §13's network-copyleft effect under a Palimpsest overlay would require a
freshly drafted licence, and legal advice rather than a text edit.
* Permissive licences (MIT, BSD, Apache-2.0) place no such restriction, so
`PMIT` and siblings are straightforward by comparison.

Every other sole-owner repository — including this `standards` repo — is
MPL-2.0 (code) / CC-BY-SA-4.0 (docs) per Rule 1, both as the *stated* and the
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