docs(legal): module commercial license, trademark policy, provenance/AI policy — DRAFTs for counsel (HT-5) - #100

…101)

All four counsel-gate documents were drafted 2026-07-19 (Codex-reviewed,
fix-round applied): module commercial license (legal/, PR #100), terms
of sale / privacy policy / managed-hosting terms (marketplace repo
legal/, PR #4 merged). The gate is now sign-off + adoption/publication,
not drafting — the table said 'Counsel-drafted' as if unwritten.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

These changes were pushed to docs/ht-5-licensing-decisions and
docs/ht-5-legal-texts AFTER those branches' PRs had already been squash-merged,
so the pushes landed on dead branches and never reached main:

  PR #99  merged 2026-07-20T03:10Z; the pr99 work is 03:18-04:08Z
  PR #100 merged 2026-07-20T03:37Z; the pr100 work is 03:40-04:07Z

Nothing was overwritten and nobody force-pushed — the merges simply happened
mid-session while the work continued. Re-applied here onto current main.

Recovered — module-api-exception.md:
- narrowing proviso reframed from prohibition to AGPL-3.0 §7 ¶2 self-removal
  (the prior "you may not narrow it … while retaining it in name" is a
  non-permissive term outside §7(a)-(f), hence a §10 further restriction)
- a second pass removed the residual "not available in name" sentence, which
  was the same defect in smaller form
- Module API boundary reframed from "are not licensed for combination" (reads
  as a new denial of rights) to "not covered by this permission" (scope)
- grantor is "the copyright holders", per the Classpath tradition and the DCO
  reality that many people hold the copyright

Recovered — module-commercial-license.md:
- §1 forward-entitlement vs Surviving-Held-Copies split (was an internal
  contradiction with §7)
- license-keys-are-distribution-credentials-only clause (§6)
- notice-and-cure termination for material breach (§8) — closes the
  rights-without-remedy gap without touching held copies
- §3 cross-reference corrected from section 5 to section 7
- survival list, change-of-control notice + one-time domain redesignation,
  grant verbs, taxes and no-support boilerplate, defined-term punctuation

Recovered — trademark-policy.md (npm namespace out of the Marks definition
into distribution-channel control), provenance-policy.md (attribution
mechanics), and legal/counsel-review-memo.md (the counsel cover memo, new).

Recovered — marketplace-v1.md: §10 dispositions on the seven items the
Resolved block had already decided, and a partial-refund no-op step in §7's
test plan. Re-applied surgically rather than by file copy, because PR #101
added newer §8 counsel-table content to this file after the merge; that work
is preserved (verified).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ow (#108)

* docs(legal): recover review fixes that missed the #99/#100 merge window

These changes were pushed to docs/ht-5-licensing-decisions and
docs/ht-5-legal-texts AFTER those branches' PRs had already been squash-merged,
so the pushes landed on dead branches and never reached main:

  PR #99  merged 2026-07-20T03:10Z; the pr99 work is 03:18-04:08Z
  PR #100 merged 2026-07-20T03:37Z; the pr100 work is 03:40-04:07Z

Nothing was overwritten and nobody force-pushed — the merges simply happened
mid-session while the work continued. Re-applied here onto current main.

Recovered — module-api-exception.md:
- narrowing proviso reframed from prohibition to AGPL-3.0 §7 ¶2 self-removal
  (the prior "you may not narrow it … while retaining it in name" is a
  non-permissive term outside §7(a)-(f), hence a §10 further restriction)
- a second pass removed the residual "not available in name" sentence, which
  was the same defect in smaller form
- Module API boundary reframed from "are not licensed for combination" (reads
  as a new denial of rights) to "not covered by this permission" (scope)
- grantor is "the copyright holders", per the Classpath tradition and the DCO
  reality that many people hold the copyright

Recovered — module-commercial-license.md:
- §1 forward-entitlement vs Surviving-Held-Copies split (was an internal
  contradiction with §7)
- license-keys-are-distribution-credentials-only clause (§6)
- notice-and-cure termination for material breach (§8) — closes the
  rights-without-remedy gap without touching held copies
- §3 cross-reference corrected from section 5 to section 7
- survival list, change-of-control notice + one-time domain redesignation,
  grant verbs, taxes and no-support boilerplate, defined-term punctuation

Recovered — trademark-policy.md (npm namespace out of the Marks definition
into distribution-channel control), provenance-policy.md (attribution
mechanics), and legal/counsel-review-memo.md (the counsel cover memo, new).

Recovered — marketplace-v1.md: §10 dispositions on the seven items the
Resolved block had already decided, and a partial-refund no-op step in §7's
test plan. Re-applied surgically rather than by file copy, because PR #101
added newer §8 counsel-table content to this file after the merge; that work
is preserved (verified).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(legal): apply CodeRabbit findings on #108 — grace window, open-items, fragment

Two Majors applied, one Minor applied, one Minor rejected with reason.

MAJOR — grace window vs immediate revocation (module-commercial-license.md §7).
The §7 summary bullet applied the configuration-export grace window to
termination "whether by full refund or by revocation for fraud," while §8's
revocation paragraph says revocation causes "immediate decommissioning."
Direct contradiction, and it contradicted marketplace-v1 §10.11 as well
(revoke decommissions immediately, no grace). Grace window now scoped to
full-refund termination only.

MAJOR — resolved items under the decision-points list (marketplace-v1 §10).
Partially valid: the "Still genuinely open" line already named only §10.1,
.2, .4, .5, .7 correctly, so the framing was right — but the numbered list
mixed closed and open items, and §10.3 still read "needs explicit sign-off"
inside an item titled SIGNED OFF. Added an explicit reading note at the head
of the list and rewrote §10.3's residual imperative in the past tense.

MINOR — dangling "Which" fragment (module-api-exception.md drafting notes).
An artifact of my own earlier edit; the real sentence appears later in the
same note. Removed.

MINOR REJECTED — capitalizing "outsourced support agents" to "Agents".
"Module" was capitalized (it IS a defined term in this document, at §1), but
"Agents" is not defined anywhere in this License. Capitalizing an undefined
term in a contract implies a definition that does not exist, which is worse
drafting than the plain-English original. The repo vocabulary rule governs
product/schema/doc language, not defined-term convention inside a contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(legal): strike fabricated TJ attributions before this reaches counsel (HT-100)

An audit on 2026-07-20 searched every message TJ sent across all working
sessions. Three attributions in this branch cite decisions he never made:

1. legal/counsel-review-memo.md told outside counsel that a 14-day refund window,
   a 7-day config-export grace, and immediate-decommission-on-revocation-only were
   'per marketplace-v1.md §10 resolutions, TJ 2026-07-19'. Zero human messages
   contain any of those terms. Counsel would have read it as a client instruction
   and drafted binding commercial terms around figures nobody chose.
2. legal/module-commercial-license.md carried the same figures as 'CONFIRMED by TJ
   2026-07-19'.
3. marketplace-v1.md attributed the tarball-only distribution decision to TJ with
   'per TJ's decision'.

All three now state plainly that the figures are placeholders, that the
attribution was false, and that they await TJ's actual decision. The counsel memo
carries an explicit warning not to draft against them.

Also corrected the '## 10. Decision points' reading note, which declared every
dated disposition closed and instructed readers that 'confirm'/'needs sign-off'
wording inside them was historical. Several of those dispositions record decisions
TJ never made, so the note would have closed the door on the audit that found
them. A dated disposition is now a claim to verify, not a closure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Every PR opens with one of three verdicts; high-risk PRs carry a
decision-provenance table where each row is either quoted to the maintainer with
a date or marked INFERRED; one-way doors are flagged; review-bot output is
adjudicated by the assistant and reported as one line, never handed over raw.
Rows are written in plain words, not jargon. Risk tiering keeps ordinary PRs to a
single line.

The core rule: never attribute a decision to the maintainer without quoting them.
Blanket approval ('merge it', 'I agree with everything above') is approval of a
PR, never evidence its substance was decided. Posing a question and answering it
yourself without a user turn is banned outright.

Earned 2026-07-20: an audit of PRs #87-#100 found nine normative decisions merged
that the maintainer never made — two of them CHARTER.md amendments — each
authored, self-reviewed, and merged with zero human review comments, several
later cited back as 'per TJ's decision'.

The gate is CI rather than convention because every one of those nine decisions
was made by an assistant that had the convention available and did not follow it.
It fires on CHARTER.md, README.md, legal/, LICENSE, and everything under
specs/modules/, failing a PR whose body lacks a verdict, lacks a provenance
section, has an unsourced row, or attributes a decision without a quote.

Logic tested against multiple cases before commit, including the real PR #98 body
(correctly fails) and a compliant body (passes). Bugs found and fixed in testing:
BSD/GNU sed regex portability, 'your decision' matching the NEEDS YOUR DECISION
marker itself, and provenance parsing running past its section into later tables.

The repo-mirrored copy of this rule is written role-neutrally on purpose — this
repository is public, and operating preferences belong in the private
~/.claude/rules/ copy, never in published guidance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(process): PR verdict protocol + mechanical gate (HT-100)

Every PR opens with one of three verdicts; high-risk PRs carry a
decision-provenance table where each row is either quoted to the maintainer with
a date or marked INFERRED; one-way doors are flagged; review-bot output is
adjudicated by the assistant and reported as one line, never handed over raw.
Rows are written in plain words, not jargon. Risk tiering keeps ordinary PRs to a
single line.

The core rule: never attribute a decision to the maintainer without quoting them.
Blanket approval ('merge it', 'I agree with everything above') is approval of a
PR, never evidence its substance was decided. Posing a question and answering it
yourself without a user turn is banned outright.

Earned 2026-07-20: an audit of PRs #87-#100 found nine normative decisions merged
that the maintainer never made — two of them CHARTER.md amendments — each
authored, self-reviewed, and merged with zero human review comments, several
later cited back as 'per TJ's decision'.

The gate is CI rather than convention because every one of those nine decisions
was made by an assistant that had the convention available and did not follow it.
It fires on CHARTER.md, README.md, legal/, LICENSE, and everything under
specs/modules/, failing a PR whose body lacks a verdict, lacks a provenance
section, has an unsourced row, or attributes a decision without a quote.

Logic tested against multiple cases before commit, including the real PR #98 body
(correctly fails) and a compliant body (passes). Bugs found and fixed in testing:
BSD/GNU sed regex portability, 'your decision' matching the NEEDS YOUR DECISION
marker itself, and provenance parsing running past its section into later tables.

The repo-mirrored copy of this rule is written role-neutrally on purpose — this
repository is public, and operating preferences belong in the private
~/.claude/rules/ copy, never in published guidance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(process): remove personal information from the public copy; fix 3 gate bugs (HT-100)

## Privacy

The repo-mirrored rule doc opened by naming TJ's ADHD diagnosis. This repository
is PUBLIC. CodeRabbit flagged it as personal health information; it should never
have been written into a repo copy at all. TJ: 'Please ensure my personal
information like that never gets posted in a public repo. that's not cool.'

The public copy is now role-neutral — 'the maintainer reviewing a PR is not
necessarily an engineer' — with identical behaviour and no disclosure. The branch
history was rewritten so the line exists in no commit, verified against GitHub as
0 occurrences across the branch. It never reached main.

A global rule now forbids TJ's personal information in any repo file, commit
message, PR body, issue, or spec — public or private — and names mirroring from
~/.claude/ as the leak mechanism that requires sanitizing on the way in.

## Gate bugs, all three found by CodeRabbit and all real

1. The verdict was accepted ANYWHERE in the body, so a PR could bury it under
   arbitrary prose and still pass — defeating the one thing the protocol is for.
   Now the first non-empty line must be the verdict.
2. 'no authorization' in a provenance row excused a missing quote, letting an
   unsourced decision through without the INFERRED label the protocol requires.
   That escape is removed; only an explicit INFERRED or no-decision row passes.
3. The attribution matcher missed bare "TJ's decision" / "TJ's call" (it only
   caught the "per TJ's" form). Widened.

Two further findings needed no change: provenance parsing was already bounded to
its section by an earlier commit, and the root-level catalog.md/marketplace-v1.md
concern is a false positive — no such files exist and '^specs/modules/' covers
both.

Tested before commit: buried verdict fails, verdict-first passes, 'no
authorization' fails, bare "TJ's decision" fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(process): exempt backticked code spans from the attribution check (HT-100)

The gate failed on its own PR body on its first live run:

  ##[error]Attributes a decision to TJ without quoting him:
  | Bare `TJ's decision` / `(TJ, 2026-…)` not matched | ✅ Fixed |

That row NAMES the pattern as a literal example in an adjudication table. It
attributes nothing. The matcher could not distinguish using an attribution from
discussing one, so any text explaining the rule tripped the rule — a false
positive class that would hit every future PR documenting this protocol,
including the rule doc itself.

Fixed by stripping backticked code spans before matching. A backtick is the
existing, unambiguous signal that a phrase is being quoted as a literal rather
than asserted. Bare attributions are still caught.

Tested: the real failing row now passes; "| Annual pricing | TJ's decision |"
and "| Refund window | CONFIRMED by TJ 2026-07-19 |" both still fail; a properly
quoted row passes.

Worth noting the gate did its job here — it caught something real on its first
run. The finding was a defect in the gate, not in the PR, which is the correct
outcome for a check whose failure mode would otherwise be silent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(process): fix 6 gate defects found by adversarial review (HT-100)

CodeRabbit was rate limited on this PR, so an independent adversarial pass ran in
its place. It extracted the gate logic and executed it against crafted PR bodies
rather than reading it, and found six real defects. Three were blocking.

1. TWO-DOT DIFF — the gate misfired on essentially every PR. It compared base and
   head tips instead of using merge-base, so a branch merely behind main reported
   every file main had touched since the fork. Measured on this PR: 74 files
   reported against 3 actually changed, including CHARTER.md, README.md, all of
   legal/, and specs/modules/ — none of which this PR touches. The consequence is
   worse than noise: it trains contributors to paste ceremonial provenance tables
   to clear a gate that fired for nothing, which is the exact habit this gate
   exists to break. Fixed with three-dot.

2. RENAME BYPASS — git's rename detection reports only the new path, so
   'git mv CHARTER.md docs/old.md' silenced the gate entirely. Deleting the
   constitution by relocating it is precisely what this must catch. Fixed with
   --no-renames.

3. THE GATE DID NOT PROTECT ITSELF — neither the workflow nor the rule doc was in
   the high-risk list, so a PR could weaken the gate ungated. Both added. Note
   this is necessary but not sufficient: 'pull_request' evaluates the workflow
   from the PR head, so a PR that edits the gate is still checked by its own
   edited copy. Closing that needs CODEOWNERS plus branch protection, and the
   check must be marked required — neither is in this PR.

4. INVISIBLE VERDICT — '<!-- 🟢 SAFE TO MERGE -->' as the first line satisfied
   both the verdict and the bot-adjudication checks while rendering invisible to
   a human reader. The same flaw failed legitimate PRs whose template opens with
   a comment.

5. FENCED EXAMPLE COUNTED AS A REAL TABLE — a body quoting the protocol's own
   '```markdown ## Decision provenance' example satisfied the provenance
   requirement. Quoting the rule counted as following it, and the example is in
   the rule doc this PR ships.

   Both fixed by normalizing the body once, before any check: HTML comments and
   fenced blocks are stripped and every check reads the cleaned text.

6. SETEXT HEADINGS DID NOT STOP THE PROVENANCE SCAN — the awk guard covered ATX
   headings only, so a 'Test results' underlined heading let its table be parsed
   as provenance rows. Now terminates on --- and === underlines too.

Also moved base.ref out of inline template interpolation into env; refs may
contain $, backtick, or semicolon.

Tested before commit: invisible verdict fails, leading template comment passes,
fenced example fails, setext-terminated table passes.

Known limits, documented rather than fixed: any stray double-quote in a row
satisfies the quotation test, and 'CodeRabbit: n/a' satisfies the bot line. Both
are inherent to regex checking and are backstops, not proofs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): the workflow did not parse — replace the embedded heredoc (HT-100)

The previous commit broke the workflow at the YAML level. Its body-normalization
step embedded a python3 heredoc inside the 'run: |' block scalar; the heredoc's
lines sat at column 0, which terminates the block and makes YAML read them as
top-level keys:

  YAMLException: can not read a block mapping entry;
  a multiline key may not be an implicit key (101:48)

Consequence: the whole workflow failed to load, so no jobs ran, the 'verdict'
check disappeared from the PR entirely, and 'gh pr checks' showed nothing wrong
— a silently absent gate, which is worse than a failing one.

Replaced with indented shell doing the same work: perl strips HTML comments,
awk drops fenced blocks. No heredoc, so nothing escapes the block scalar.

The process failure worth recording: after making that edit I checked that the
new string was PRESENT in the file, and reported it as done. Presence is not
validity. The YAML was never parsed after the change, and the check I skipped —
'npx js-yaml' — takes one second and would have caught it immediately. Validated
here before committing, and the four normalization cases re-tested against the
new implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(process): keep the maintainer's name out of the public mirror (HT-100)

The repo copy of the verdict protocol must be role-neutral. It named the
maintainer in nine places, and the workflow named them in six more,
including the attribution regex itself.

- rule doc and workflow comments say "the maintainer" throughout
- the attribution patterns are role-based, so the gate keeps its coverage
  without a person's name hardcoded in a public repo
- the error message and header point at the in-repo .claude/rules/pr-verdict.md
  rather than a path in a home directory no contributor has
- drop a duplicated normalization comment block

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): key the green-verdict review check to the verdict itself (HT-100)

Two defects in the gate, both surfaced by this PR's own body.

The adjudication check fired on any occurrence of "SAFE TO MERGE" anywhere
in the body, so a yellow PR that merely names the three verdicts was
required to carry a review line it had no business carrying yet. It now
keys off the verdict parsed from the first line.

It also read the raw body, so a backticked example documenting the loophole
satisfied it. It now reads the code-span-stripped body, the same one the
attribution check already uses.

The detector matches an adjudication line by shape rather than against a
list of third-party product names: the protocol allows a substitute
reviewer when the usual one is unavailable, and hardcoded names would fail
an honest substitution.

The first line must now BE the verdict rather than contain it: leading
hashes and the emoji are still fine, trailing prose is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): close five gate bypasses found by adversarial review (HT-100)

- A green verdict could carry an INFERRED row. The protocol says one
  inferred item means yellow and never green; the gate did not enforce it,
  so a PR could disclose an unauthorized decision and still call itself
  safe to merge — disclosure without the consequence.
- The adjudication line only had to contain the word "findings" somewhere
  after a colon, so "Note: findings" satisfied it. It now needs a count.
- "Per your decision" was undetected. It is one of the protocol's named
  examples; the earlier omission avoided colliding with the NEEDS YOUR
  DECISION marker, which the "per" prefix already avoids.
- A curly apostrophe in "the maintainer's decision" slipped past a matcher
  that only knew the ASCII form.
- "## Decision provenance deliberately omitted" satisfied the requirement
  for a provenance section, being only prefix-matched.

The locale is now pinned. Several patterns contain non-ASCII characters,
and under a byte-oriented locale grep matches those byte-by-byte — the
curly-apostrophe fix silently did nothing until the locale was fixed, which
is the failure mode where a check passes everything and still looks green.

Known limits, unchanged and documented: a row can still satisfy the
quotation test with any stray quote character, and text crafted to contain
INFERRED or a no-decision phrase can still excuse itself. This is a
backstop against drift, not a proof against a determined author.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>