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Purpose Source License 1.0 — working draft

Draft — not counsel-issued · not a licence grant

This text has not been drafted, reviewed, or issued by counsel. It grants nothing and binds nobody. It exists so the publication pipeline — the byte-exact text endpoint, the hash pin, the metadata endpoint, and the annotated companion — can be built and tested before the canonical text exists. Do not commit this file to a repository and do not rely on it.

Version
PurposeSource-1.0-draft
Published
not published
Converts to Apache-2.0
fourth anniversary of publication
SPDX status
not-yet
SHA-256 of the text
be9de8eaaa29977edcd4d19c6a17f7a81c3c08a62f4a00ade7fe26f4707639f2
Byte-exact text
/license/PurposeSource-1.0-draft.txt
Metadata
/license/PurposeSource-1.0-draft.json
Development record
https://github.com/purposesource/license

Canonical text

Rendered verbatim from the vendored file. Verify it yourself: curl -s https://purposesource.org/license/PurposeSource-1.0-draft.txt | sha256sum 

PURPOSE SOURCE LICENSE 1.0 — WORKING DRAFT

STATUS: DRAFT. NOT ISSUED BY COUNSEL. NOT A LICENCE GRANT.

This file is a structural placeholder held in the website repository so that the
publication pipeline — the byte-exact .txt endpoint, the SHA-256 pin, the metadata
endpoint, and the annotated companion page — can be built and tested end to end
before the canonical text exists.

It grants nothing. It waives nothing. It imposes nothing. No text below has been
drafted, reviewed, or issued by counsel, and no organisation is bound by any part
of it. Do not commit this file to a repository. Do not rely on it. Do not quote it
as the licence.

The canonical text is drafted by counsel and published in the license repository,
from which this site VENDORS it: the build fetches the tagged release, asserts
SHA-256 equality against the copy in this directory, and fails on any mismatch. A
licence text is never retyped, reflowed, or edited in this repository.

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The headings below record the STRUCTURE the drafting brief asks for, so reviewers
can see what will occupy each slot. The bodies are deliberately empty.

  1.  Definitions
      Including: Covered Software; Version; Publication Date; Licensor; Steward;
      Steward of Record; Organisation; Consolidated Group; Threshold; Purpose Fee;
      Entitlement; Waiver; Conversion Date.

  2.  Grant of rights — use, modification, distribution
      Public source, forks, modification, redistribution, self-hosting, and
      self-patching, on terms intended to be indistinguishable from a permissive
      licence for every user below the Threshold.

  3.  The Threshold
      Dual test, measured across the consolidated group, self-certified, indexed,
      with a cure window. An organisation below the Threshold owes nothing and
      registers nothing.

  4.  Condition on Organisations above the Threshold
      The condition attaches to continued use of Versions whose Publication Date
      falls after the organisation crossed the Threshold, and is discharged by a
      current Entitlement or a Waiver.

  5.  Per-version vesting
      A Version is vested to an Entitlement holder if and only if that Version's
      Publication Date falls on or before the end of the paid term. Vesting is
      permanent. Nothing in this licence permits a vested Version to be withdrawn
      from a holder by project exit, delisting, steward failure, or waiver
      revocation.

  6.  Waivers
      Repository-scoped, public, gratis, granted by an authorised administrator of
      the repository, revocable prospectively only, with vesting per Section 5.

  7.  Contribution
      Inbound contributions are made under this licence. No copyright assignment,
      ever: contributors keep their copyright. The designed default instrument is a
      one-line sign-off; its final form is confirmed by counsel.

  8.  Automatic conversion to Apache License 2.0
      Each Version converts to the Apache License, Version 2.0 on the fourth
      anniversary of its Publication Date. The conversion is unconditional and
      survives the disappearance of the Steward.

  9.  Steward-lapse backstop
      If the Steward ceases to operate the registry and payment rail for a defined
      period, the condition in Section 4 lapses and the licence continues on
      permissive terms.

  10. Notices, marks, and the canonical token
      The single canonical notice line an adopting repository carries, and the rule
      that no terms addressed to the repository administrator ever live in this
      file.

  11. Termination and cure
      Cure window; reinstatement; the rule that termination never reaches vested
      Versions.

  12. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

  13. Governing law and forum

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Canonical repository : https://github.com/purposesource/license
This file            : structural placeholder, superseded on first counsel issue
Placeholder date     : 2026-09-02

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