Alignment License v0.5.1 Known in short as ALPS, the Alignment License for Purpose Source. Purpose Source is the defended term for what this licence achieves: source that is open within a purpose. STATUS. Version 0.5.1 of the Alignment License, adopted on 2026-11-14 by the Steward (Day Waterbury) for the OpenHaven skill and where it is downloaded, replacing 0.5.0. The version number is semantic: a 0.x text is in force for what it covers and is still being refined. The legal rendering is the Memri People's Data Public License 0.6 (MPL 2.0 with Memri's People's Data section) with the changes named in section 4; where this plain rendering and the legal rendering differ, the drafter's rendering is read against the drafter. This is source that is open within a purpose; it does not claim to be open source in the OSI sense, because it carries a purpose condition, and it does not apologise for that. THE GATE. This agreement in spirit, witnessed here between us, is the only gate the Alignment License places on the code; within that values alignment membrane we are parties to a shared purpose and the code is available part of the commons, very much as we are accustomed to with traditional open source, but with this essential innovation of healthy boundaries like any other living thing. 1. THE PURPOSE, A CONDITION OF EVERY GRANT Serve life and advance its thriving on Earth and beyond; on every celestial body and the space between them. What serving life and advancing its thriving mean is not guesswork: it is long known, and it is read in the light of that knowledge as it grows. Among it: the limits to growth of a finite planet (Meadows et al.); the safe and just space between a social foundation every person needs and the ecological ceiling of the planetary boundaries (Raworth's doughnut economics; the planetary boundaries science of Rockstrom, Steffen et al.); the governance of shared resources as commons (Ostrom); the field of regenerative economics; and what people have already written and made law for it: the Earth Charter (2000); the rights of nature (the Constitution of Ecuador, 2008, Articles 71-74; the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, proclaimed at Cochabamba on 22 April 2010); the precautionary principle (Rio Declaration, 1992, Principle 15; the Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle, 1998); the Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations (2023); and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. Its horizon is long. A use answers to the seventh generation after us, as Haudenosaunee leaders teach of the Great Law of Peace, in the words of Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons: "make every decision on behalf of the seventh generation to come"; and to the long now, ten thousand years behind us and ten thousand or more ahead, in which the slow layers of life (nature, then culture) hold the fast ones (commerce, fashion) by constraint and constancy, and the fast may propose but the slow dispose. Where a use threatens serious or irreversible harm to living systems, a lack of full certainty is no reason to wait, and the one who proposes the use, not the public, bears the burden of showing it is safe. At the least, serving life means no ecocide (as the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide defined it in 2021: unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts), no genocide (as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948, defines it), and no extraction that overshoots what living systems can renew or that destabilises them. Advancing its thriving means an impact better than neutral, meeting people's needs within the planet's means, and real help with the healing of living systems that have already been harmed. Here, on Earth, first. What these models mean for other celestial bodies and the space between them is for later versions to say. The Purpose is the condition. Every use of this software, and everything built with it, is held to it whole. Where a term of this licence admits two readings, the one that serves the Purpose governs. In this software's own domain the Purpose includes at least these practices; breaking any one of them is a breach of the Purpose. They are examples of the Purpose, never its limit: (P1) Leave people their keys. You never hold, copy or escrow a Person's identity keys or vault keys, except under a separate Agreement with that Person that names the holding and can be cancelled by them. Breach: a key held without an Agreement that names it. (P2) Leave people their relationships and agreements. Dyads, rooms and Agreements belong to the people in them. You never read, index, rank, sell or act on a Person's graph or agreements except to serve that Person at their request. Breach: any use of the graph that the Person did not ask for. (P3) Leave people their data. Sealed by default; processed only to serve that Person unless they separately agree, for one purpose, for at most two years, never renewed automatically, with a fair offer; deleted with proof on cancellation; portable at any time. Breach: any processing outside those lines. (P4) Never turn the software against people. No surveillance, tracking, political profiling, or gathering information about people other than the Person; no training or tuning of a model on Personal Information outside a Consent Agreement that names that purpose; no selling of a Person's attention. Breach: any of the named uses. (P5) Keep the network open. You publish any change to how nodes talk before you deploy it; you never make a conforming node unable to talk to yours by a change you did not publish; a Person can always leave with everything. Breach: an unpublished wire change in a deployment others are expected to talk to. (P6) Keep your changes open to the people you serve. If you give a changed version to someone, or run it for others over a network, you offer them the source of your changes to the licensed files; your own separate files stay yours. Breach: a changed version served or given without its source on offer. Breaking the Purpose, by any of P1-P6 or otherwise, breaks the grant with it (section 3). A Person's use of their own information for themselves is theirs. Whether a party keeps the Purpose is judged by those who share it, as a commons governs itself (Ostrom): those who watch over it are its members or answer to them, sanctions are graduated to the seriousness and context of the breach, and a dispute has a near place to be heard, quickly and at little cost. A party is in breach to the degree that others within the membrane of this purpose hold it to be; to that degree it loses access to the shared code, its releases and the collective intelligence shared within that membrane, as well as the grant. 2. THE PLAIN VERSION 1. Serve life and advance its thriving on Earth and beyond; on every celestial body and the space between them, as what is long known about living within a living planet's means defines it, for the seventh generation and the long now: no ecocide, no genocide, no extraction that overshoots or destabilises living systems; leave things better than you found them and help heal what has been harmed. That is the purpose of this software. The rules below are the least of it in this software's domain. 2. Anyone may use, study, change and share this software, for any purpose consistent with the rules below. 3. Share your changes to our files. If you give a changed version to someone, or run it for others over a network, offer them the source of your changes. Your own separate files can stay yours. 4. People's data is not yours. Keep it encrypted wherever you can. Use it only to serve that person, unless they separately agree to something else: one stated purpose, at most two years, never renewed automatically, and with a fair offer. Delete it with proof when they ask. Let them take all of it with them. Never hold their keys without an agreement that says so. 5. Never use it for surveillance, tracking, political profiling, finding out about other people, training a model on people's data without their named consent, or selling their attention. 6. Keep the protocol open. Publish any change to how nodes talk to each other before you use it. Anyone may build a compatible version. 7. Break these and your rights end, unless you fix it within 30 days. Membership of the Purpose Partnership is a separate agreement; this licence gives everyone the same rights. 3. TERMINATION Your rights under this licence end on a breach of section 1 or 2. They are reinstated if the breach is cured within 30 days of a first notice, or if no notice comes within 60 days of the cure. The cure of a data breach includes the deletion, with proof, of what was processed outside the rules. A patent suit against the software ends the suer's grant. Where the law makes compliance impossible, comply as far as possible and publish what cannot be complied with. 4. THE LEGAL RENDERING The legal text is the Memri People's Data Public License 0.6 (MPL 2.0 plus its section 4, People's Data) with these changes and no others: the name, Alignment License; section 1 above as a new section before the grants, its sentence "where a term of this licence admits two readings, the one that serves the Purpose governs" as the interpretive rule and its judgement by those who share the Purpose as the way a breach is found; a network clause in Responsibilities applying AGPL section 13's rule to the licensed files only; an open-protocol section: the wire specification is public, no one deploys a change to how nodes talk without publishing it first (a private experiment among one's own nodes is exempt while it stays there), and a Person may always take identity, relationships, agreements and data to any conforming implementation; one sentence at the end of the grants, that membership of the Purpose Partnership is a separate Agreement and this licence grants the same rights to everyone; section 4 People's Data kept whole with keys added to 4.1, the two uses of P4 added to 4.8, and consent under 4.3 made as a Consensual Agreement whose cancellation is the proof of deletion of 4.5; drafting fixes to 0.6; and termination as section 3 above. A build that claims this licence can show, on request, every consent a Person has given with its purpose and expiry, the proof of deletion when it ends, which keys the node holds and under which Agreement, and which wire version the build speaks and where it is published. 5. VERSIONS The Steward publishes versions; anyone may use a later version's terms. Machine-readable terms, this plain version and the legal text are published together, tied by one signed hash. 6. MARKS "Purpose Source", "Alignment License", "ALPS", "Consensual", "Geb" and "Serqet" are marks of the Steward, under a trademark policy that is a separate agreement. This licence grants no right to the marks.