{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:57:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a09542-eb0c-7731-96d4-10374b581a12\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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agent to recognise a license document, assess the permission it records, and determine whether a proposed activity falls within its evidenced scope and conditions.", "definition": "A license is a legal document that records permission granted by a competent authority or rights holder to an identified person or entity to undertake a specified activity or use specified rights, subject to applicable limits and conditions.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the license as an information artifact recording legal permission, including its authoritative text, parties, permitted activities, conditions, applicability, and documented status; it distinguishes the document from the underlying authorization and the activity authorized.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the license document, its authoritative version, and any incorporated terms", "Identification of the issuer, permission holder, and evidence of the issuer's authority", "Specification of authorized activities, covered subjects, exclusions, and territorial limits", "Conditions, obligations, restrictions, and evidence relevant to exercising permission", "Effective dates, expiry, renewal, suspension, revocation, and amendment records", "Relationships between the license and associated grants, agreements, credentials, and registry records" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The underlying legal authorization as a separate institutional relationship", "The complete model of the licensed asset, work, premises, product, or activity", "The issuer's organization and the holder's full identity or professional profile", "Applications, examinations, inspections, and licensing proceedings except where their outcomes affect the license", "Entire contracts, statutes, or regulatory frameworks beyond provisions needed to interpret the license", "Enforcement cases and judicial determinations beyond their documented effects on permission" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its operative content records permission to undertake an identified activity; a document that only establishes identity or qualifications does not satisfy this test.", "It identifies, or provides a way to determine, the permission holder and an issuer claiming authority over the relevant activity or subject.", "Its permission has a determinable scope and applicability; possession of a document bearing the word 'license' is insufficient.", "It can record permission without transferring ownership of the licensed subject; any ownership transfer must be established separately.", "A permit, certificate, agreement, or registry extract may serve as a license depending on its operative function; document titles alone do not establish the boundary." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "License identifier", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Issuer-assigned identifier and namespace; absent; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports matching the document to authoritative records without treating identical numbers from different issuers as identical licenses." }, { "name": "Permission basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Public-authority permission; rights-holder permission; combined basis; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which evidence is needed to establish authority and interpret the permission." }, { "name": "Issuer and authority basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to issuing party, relevant authority or rights, and any delegation evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates an issuer's claim of authority from evidence that supports it." }, { "name": "Permission holder", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named party; defined class of eligible recipients; bearer where supported; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines who may rely on the permission." }, { "name": "Licensed subject and activities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to covered subjects and descriptions of permitted acts and exclusions", "why_it_matters": "Allows a proposed action to be compared with what the document actually authorizes." }, { "name": "Territorial and jurisdictional applicability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Express territories, governing jurisdiction, recognition limitations, or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents geographic permission scope from being confused with governing law or recognition elsewhere." }, { "name": "Effective interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Recorded start and end dates or timestamps, precision and time zone where relevant; conditional; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment at the time of a proposed or historical action." }, { "name": "Documented permission status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pending effectiveness; effective; suspended; expired; revoked; terminated; disputed; unknown, each with evidence and an as-of time", "why_it_matters": "Keeps status assessments tied to evidence rather than inferred solely from the document's existence." }, { "name": "Conditions and compliance assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each relevant condition: satisfied; unsatisfied; not applicable; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the existence of permission from whether a particular use meets its requirements." }, { "name": "Transfer and sublicensing terms", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Expressly allowed; allowed subject to conditions; expressly prohibited; silent; unresolved, assessed separately for transfer and sublicensing", "why_it_matters": "Prevents possession, assignment, delegation, and sublicensing from being treated as interchangeable." } ], "affordances": [ "Retrieve the authoritative license text and identify missing incorporated terms or amendments.", "Compare a proposed actor, activity, subject, location, and time against the recorded permission.", "Identify obligations and evidence that must be checked before exercising permission.", "Check authoritative status records and flag stale, conflicting, or incomplete evidence.", "Identify documented renewal, amendment, transfer, or sublicensing procedures.", "Produce an evidence-linked applicability assessment that exposes unresolved interpretation questions." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Read a licence and report who it covers, what it permits and its conditions and dates.", "Track renewal dates and conditions for the holder.", "Check a licence number against the issuer's public register where one exists." ], "must_not": [ "Forge, alter or reuse a licence, or present an expired one as current.", "Act under a licence it does not hold or that does not cover the activity.", "Disclose licence documents containing personal data beyond those entitled to see them.", "Advise that an activity is permitted without reading the licence conditions." ], "requires_human": [ "Applying for, surrendering or transferring a licence.", "Deciding that an activity is covered by an existing licence." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Licences protect the public from unqualified or unsafe activity.", "Licence records hold personal data such as addresses and medical conditions." ], "affected_parties": [ "The licence holder", "People the licence protects", "The issuing authority" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The named holder; the issuing authority holds the authoritative record.", "master_systems": [ "Issuing authorities' licence registers" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "A document or card naming the holder, the permitted activity, conditions and validity dates.", "Authenticity is checked against the issuer's register, not by appearance." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Expired or misread licences lead to unlawful operation and loss of insurance.", "Forged licences put unqualified people in safety-critical roles." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "License documents are encountered in regulated activities and in permissions to use intellectual property or other controlled resources.", "They provide evidence of who grants permission, who receives it and which activities or rights it covers.", "They are consulted when checking conditions, restrictions, validity periods and whether a proposed activity is within the recorded permission." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO/IEC 18013-1, issued by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission, specifies physical characteristics and basic data requirements for driving licences within its scope." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "oewn", "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-06561652-n", "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-06561652-n", "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" }, { "id": "wiktionary-en", "title": "Wiktionary: license", "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/license", "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage", "url_status": "live", "checked_by": "http 200" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "license-document-and-operative-text", "name": "License document and operative text", "description": "Identify the artifact that records permission and establish which text governs the assessment.", "rationale": "A copy, summary, badge, or obsolete version may resemble a license while omitting or misrepresenting operative permission.", "layers": [ { "id": "document-identity-and-authenticity", "name": "Document identity and authenticity", "description": "Identify the document and evidence connecting it to its claimed issuer.", "findings": [ { "id": "authoritative-license-record", "name": "Authoritative license record", "description": "Record the identifier, issuing channel, artifact provenance, and available authentication evidence without assuming appearance proves authenticity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which document or registry record is authoritative for this license, and how is it identified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authoritative-license-record-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects this copy or digital representation to the claimed issuer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authoritative-license-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operative-text-and-version", "name": "Operative text and version", "description": "Determine the relevant version and the terms included by reference.", "findings": [ { "id": "complete-permission-text", "name": "Complete permission text", "description": "Connect the license to applicable schedules, standard terms, amendments, and language versions while preserving unresolved precedence issues.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which version, schedules, referenced terms, and amendments apply to the activity and date being assessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "complete-permission-text-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes precedence when the license, incorporated terms, translations, or registry entries differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "complete-permission-text-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-permission-holder", "name": "Authority and permission holder", "description": "Establish who grants permission, on what basis, and who can rely on it.", "rationale": "Permission depends on both the issuer's relevant authority and the proposed actor's relationship to the identified holder.", "layers": [ { "id": "issuer-authority", "name": "Issuer authority", "description": "Connect the issuer to a public power, controlled right, or delegated authority relevant to the grant.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-to-grant", "name": "Authority to grant", "description": "Record the claimed authority and supporting evidence separately, including limits on delegated issuance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What legal power, controlled right, or delegation is stated as the basis for issuing this license?", "kind": "definition", "id": "authority-to-grant-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence supports that authority for the particular subject, activity, and issuance date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-to-grant-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holder-and-covered-actors", "name": "Holder and covered actors", "description": "Determine the recipient of permission and any additional actors covered through that recipient.", "findings": [ { "id": "actor-eligibility", "name": "Actor eligibility", "description": "Distinguish named holders, eligible recipient classes, and persons acting through a holder without assuming shared coverage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is permission granted to a named party, a defined recipient class, or another explicitly described holder?", "kind": "definition", "id": "actor-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "Under what terms, if any, may employees, contractors, affiliates, or agents exercise this permission?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "actor-eligibility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "permission-scope-and-limits", "name": "Permission scope and limits", "description": "Describe the activities and subjects covered and the boundaries of that coverage.", "rationale": "A license may authorize only particular acts involving a subject, in particular places or quantities.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorized-acts-and-subjects", "name": "Authorized acts and subjects", "description": "Connect the permission to specific actions and identifiable licensed subjects.", "findings": [ { "id": "grant-and-exclusions", "name": "Grant and exclusions", "description": "Record permitted acts, covered subjects, and express exclusions separately from assumptions about usual use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which acts are permitted, and which works, assets, premises, products, or activities do they concern?", "kind": "definition", "id": "grant-and-exclusions-q01" }, { "text": "Which uses, subject versions, or purposes are expressly excluded or left unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grant-and-exclusions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "territory-capacity-and-reserved-rights", "name": "Territory, capacity, and reserved rights", "description": "Capture geographic, quantitative, and exclusivity limits without conflating them.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-on-exercise", "name": "Limits on exercise", "description": "Record territorial coverage, measurable allowances, and any exclusivity or retained-rights provisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where may permission be exercised, and what separate evidence addresses recognition in another jurisdiction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-on-exercise-q01" }, { "text": "What limits apply to users, seats, copies, installations, output, or other quantities, and how are they counted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "limits-on-exercise-q02" }, { "text": "What exclusivity, retained rights, or competing grants are expressly addressed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-on-exercise-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditions-and-obligations", "name": "Conditions and obligations", "description": "Identify prerequisites and continuing requirements associated with exercising permission.", "rationale": "Different requirements may affect commencement, continued use, or other duties, and their consequences require evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "effectiveness-prerequisites", "name": "Effectiveness prerequisites", "description": "Identify events or requirements that must occur before the grant can be relied upon.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-activation", "name": "Permission activation", "description": "Record any stated acceptance, payment, registration, qualification, or other prerequisites and evidence of their completion.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stated events or requirements make this permission effective for the proposed holder?", "kind": "definition", "id": "permission-activation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes completion of each applicable prerequisite?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-activation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuing-duties-and-consequences", "name": "Continuing duties and consequences", "description": "Connect ongoing requirements to relevant uses and documented consequences of noncompliance.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-compliance", "name": "Use-specific compliance", "description": "Record applicable duties such as attribution, reporting, renewal payments, or maintenance of qualifications without assuming every breach ends permission.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which continuing duties apply to the proposed use, and what actions would satisfy them?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-compliance-q01" }, { "text": "What text or authoritative determination establishes the consequences of failure, including any notice or cure provisions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-specific-compliance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "duration-status-and-change", "name": "Duration, status, and change", "description": "Track when permission applies and the events that alter its documented state.", "rationale": "An authentic license document can persist after the permission it records has changed or ended.", "layers": [ { "id": "temporal-applicability-and-status", "name": "Temporal applicability and status", "description": "Assess effective dates and status using evidence appropriate to the assessment time.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-at-assessment-time", "name": "Permission at assessment time", "description": "Distinguish issuance, commencement, expiry, and subsequent status changes, retaining evidence timestamps and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dates or triggering events determine commencement and expiry, with what temporal precision?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "permission-at-assessment-time-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative evidence supports the permission's status at the time being assessed, and when was that evidence checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-at-assessment-time-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "renewal-amendment-and-ending", "name": "Renewal, amendment, and ending", "description": "Capture procedures and events that continue, modify, suspend, or end permission.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-changing-events", "name": "Status-changing events", "description": "Link changes to their effective times, authority, notices, and any expressly surviving permissions or duties.", "questions": [ { "text": "What procedures and deadlines govern renewal, amendment, suspension, revocation, or termination?", "kind": "action", "id": "status-changing-events-q01" }, { "text": "Which recorded events changed this permission, and what rights or obligations are stated to survive those changes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "status-changing-events-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "onward-permission-and-action-assessment", "name": "Onward permission and action assessment", "description": "Assess proposed reliance on the license, including attempts to pass permission to another party.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish exercising an existing grant from transferring it or creating a further grant.", "layers": [ { "id": "transfer-and-sublicensing", "name": "Transfer and sublicensing", "description": "Identify express terms governing changes of holder and grants to additional recipients.", "findings": [ { "id": "onward-grant-authority", "name": "Onward grant authority", "description": "Assess assignment, transfer, and sublicensing separately, including required consent and limits inherited by recipients.", "questions": [ { "text": "What terms separately address transfer of the license and authority to sublicense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "onward-grant-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What consent, notice, eligibility checks, or other steps are required for the proposed onward permission?", "kind": "action", "id": "onward-grant-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "proposed-use-assessment", "name": "Proposed use assessment", "description": "Apply the recorded grant to a concrete proposed action while exposing evidence gaps.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-applicability-decision", "name": "Evidenced applicability decision", "description": "Compare the proposed actor, act, subject, place, time, and conditions with the license; record supported conclusions and unresolved dependencies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed action match the evidenced holder, grant scope, temporal status, and applicable conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-applicability-decision-q01" }, { "text": "What missing evidence, conflicting terms, or additional permissions prevent a settled assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidenced-applicability-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the document sense, distinct from the underlying permission, legal relationship or reusable license text.", "No universal identifier format, validity period or regulatory standard applies across all license types.", "Private rights-holder licenses and public-authority licenses have different legal foundations; a researcher should verify whether the registry intends both." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Driving license", "Professional or occupational license", "Business operating license", "Import or export license", "Broadcasting license", "Intellectual property license" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Issuing authority's license numbering system", "value_or_pattern": "An authority-assigned number or alphanumeric reference", "note": "Formats vary by issuer and license type; a number generally requires issuer context to identify a license unambiguously." }, { "scheme": "SPDX License List identifiers", "value_or_pattern": "Examples include MIT and Apache-2.0", "note": "Identify standardized license texts, principally for software, rather than individual grants or issued license documents." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Documenting authorization to drive specified categories of vehicle.", "Demonstrating authorization to practise a regulated profession.", "Recording permission to operate a regulated business or facility.", "Defining permitted use, reproduction or distribution of intellectual property.", "Supporting inspections, compliance checks and renewal decisions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "A forged or altered document misrepresents authorization.", "An expired, suspended or revoked license is presented as current.", "The holder acts outside the authorized activity, territory or conditions.", "The document is attributed to the wrong person or entity.", "Possession of a document is mistaken for proof that the underlying authorization remains valid." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In British English, 'licence' is generally the noun and 'license' the verb; American English generally uses 'license' for both.", "Issuing authorities, eligibility requirements, duration and recognition across borders vary by jurisdiction and activity.", "The distinction between a license and a permit varies across legal systems and administrative practices." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Authorization", "difference": "Authorization is the permission itself; the license in this sense is the document recording it." }, { "name": "Permit", "difference": "Often overlaps with license; any distinction depends on the governing regime rather than a universal document-level test." }, { "name": "Certificate", "difference": "A certificate attests a fact, status or qualification; it grants permission only when the applicable regime gives it that effect." }, { "name": "License agreement", "difference": "A license agreement sets contractual terms for permission; a license document may instead record a unilateral administrative grant." }, { "name": "Registration", "difference": "Registration records an entry in an official system; whether it also authorizes an activity depends on the governing rules." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of license this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry's phrase 'official permission' include private rights-holder licenses, such as software and content licenses, or only permissions issued under public authority?", "Where does the registry place the boundary between a license document and the underlying authorization, particularly when permission is recorded only in a live register?", "Which neighboring registry entries cover permits, certificates, credentials, and licensing agreements, and how should functional overlap be represented without duplicate models?", "Which license families require specialized treatment of acceptance, breach, cure, revocation, and surviving rights beyond this shared structure?", "What evidence and freshness standards should govern status assessments when the document, issuer register, and subsequent notices conflict?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 19, "questions": 32 } }