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- Split competitive-analysis-2026-05.org → TOC + 9 competitor files in ideas/competitors/. Dropped date from filename. All competitor UUIDs generated, TOC keeps original UUID for backlink continuity. - Deleted passepartout-economics.org archive (replaced by 27-node KB). - Inlined 5 'See also' blocks into natural prose (compliance-index, first-mover-window, revenue-table, orders-of-magnitude-time, native-org-knowledge-base). - Linked 7 orphan compliance pages back to compliance index + finished truncated sentences. - Linked all 14 Agora requirement docs from topic-relevant pages (identity→lisp-machine-security, infrastructure→compute-marketplace, social-space→growth-strategy, exchange→agora-contracts, etc.). - Linked ai-industry-impact from investment-thesis, sufficiency-flip, verification-appliance, effects-growth-flywheel (up from 1 to 10+ pages). - Fixed CREATED timestamps to use git commit dates instead of today. - Made all links absolute from root (no port inheritance). - Removed stale agora/docs/ duplicate content.
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Licensing — AGPLv3 + Commercial
AGPLv3 for the public repository. AGPL closes the ASP loophole: anyone who modifies the software and offers it over a network must release their modified source. Combined with a patent strategy, this creates moats against proprietary forks.
Crucially: AGPL is a product requirement, not a concession. The system's value proposition is provable correctness — every decision has Merkle provenance. This claim is structurally incredible with closed source. An enterprise buyer needs to inspect the gate stack, verify the Merkle implementation, and confirm ACL2 integration. AGPL makes this possible without signing an NDA. This transparency also enables a PDS as a service model where enterprises can run their own infrastructure.
AGPL only covers modifications to code, not:
- Gate rules specific to a domain (these are data, not code)
- The fact store (empirical data generated from usage)
- Ontology categories (design decisions stored as configuration)
- Proprietary skills loaded at runtime (AGPL boundary on plugin systems is legally unsettled)
Dual license model:
- AGPLv3 for open source — builds ecosystem, trust, community
- Commercial license for enterprises that cannot accept AGPL — MySQL/SugarCRM/GraphQL model