From fe9f3ef7056bc81ab3c305b55feb827c364b28f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jonathan D.A. Jewell" <6759885+hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:45:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(templates): STATE template must not tell mints to default
 to PMPL
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The license comment in 1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template (moved
from a2ml-templates/ in the district reorg) contradicted itself and the
canon: the comment said 'Almost always PMPL-1.0-or-later' while the
value shipped two lines down was already license = "MPL-2.0". Mints
that followed the prose flipped the correct value to the reserved
licence — the exact propagation vector standards#645 hunts.

Current canon (verified three ways before touching): LICENCE-POLICY.adoc
Rule 2 (PMPL = palimpsest-license, palimpsest-plasma, consent-aware-web
ONLY), .machine_readable/licensing-policy.toml (code=MPL-2.0,
prose=CC-BY-SA-4.0; warns_on covers stray PMPL), MUST.contractile #93
('PMPL-1.0-or-later appears in NO standards file'). The comment now
states the per-category default and the palimpsest carve-out.

Comment/metadata hygiene only — the operative value was already MPL-2.0.
(Rebuilt on post-reorg main; path was a2ml-templates/ on the old layout.)

Refs #645
---
 1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template b/1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template
index 6c70068b5..6f69dfca9 100644
--- a/1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template
+++ b/1-formats/templates/STATE.a2ml.template
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ name = "{{PROJECT_NAME}}"
 #   playground     — learning/sandbox, no stability promises
 tier = "{{TIER}}"
 
-# license: SPDX identifier. Almost always PMPL-1.0-or-later.
+# license: SPDX identifier. Per-category default: MPL-2.0 (code) /
+#   CC-BY-SA-4.0 (docs). PMPL-1.0-or-later is reserved for the three
+#   palimpsest-family repos (palimpsest-license, palimpsest-plasma,
+#   consent-aware-web) — do NOT mint it elsewhere (standards#645).
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 
 # language: Primary programming language used.