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-# Maple Open Tech License (MOTL) Version 1.2
+# Maple Open Tech License (MOTL) Version 1.0
 
-**Source-Available · Time-Released · Fair Use (Commercial Restrictions)**
+**Source-Available · Time-Released · Ethical Use License**
 
 Copyright © 2025 Maple Open Tech
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Copyright © 2025 Maple Open Tech
 - **Version:** [VERSION NUMBER]  
 - **Release Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD]  
 - **Change Date:** Four (4) years from the Release Date, or [YYYY-MM-DD]  
-- **Change License:** MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)  
+- **Change Effect:** Removal of commercial and revenue-centered restrictions  
 - **Licensor:** Maple Open Tech (https://mapleopentech.ca)
 
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@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ Copyright © 2025 Maple Open Tech
 
 ### After the Change Date
 
-- ✅ This version becomes MIT-licensed with no restrictions
+- ✅ Production, commercial, and unrestricted use is permitted  
+- ⚠️ Ethical restrictions in Section 4A continue to apply  
 
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@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ Copyright © 2025 Maple Open Tech
 
 **“Non-Production Use”** means personal, academic, research, evaluation, development, testing, or proof-of-concept use.
 
-**“Companion Animals”** means animals commonly kept for companionship, assistance, service, or protection, including but not limited to dogs, cats, and similar domesticated animals, and excludes animals raised primarily for food, fiber, or agricultural production.
+**“Companion Animals”** means animals commonly kept for companionship, assistance, service, or protection, including dogs, cats, and similar domesticated animals, and excludes animals raised primarily for food, fiber, or agricultural production.
 
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@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Subject to the terms of this License, the Licensor grants You a limited, worldwi
 3. Create derivative works for Non-Production Use;  
 4. Submit contributions to the Licensed Work.
 
-Production Use or Service Offerings require a separate Commercial License.
+Production Use or Service Offerings prior to the Change Date require a separate Commercial License.
 
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@@ -112,93 +113,71 @@ Any activity intended to facilitate or materially contribute to:
 Mass or bulk surveillance of civilian populations, or systems designed primarily for population control, suppression, or intimidation rather than individualized, lawful investigation.
 
 ### 4A.4 Immigration Enforcement and Forced Removal
-Use of the Licensed Work for immigration enforcement, deportation, detention, or forced population removal, including use by agencies whose primary mandate is immigration control or border enforcement, regardless of whether such use is described as civil, administrative, or national-security related.
+Use of the Licensed Work for immigration enforcement, deportation, detention, or forced population removal, including use by agencies whose primary mandate is immigration control or border enforcement.
 
 ### 4A.5 Military, Intelligence, or Paramilitary Operations
 Use by or on behalf of armed forces, intelligence agencies, private military contractors, or similar organizations.
 
 #### Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Exception
 
-Notwithstanding this Section 4A.5, use of the Licensed Work by military or governmental entities is permitted **solely** for humanitarian assistance or disaster relief operations, provided that:
+Use by military or governmental entities is permitted **solely** for humanitarian assistance or disaster relief, provided that the Licensed Work is not used for combat, surveillance, targeting, law enforcement, population control, or security enforcement.
-
-a. The use is limited to emergency response, medical assistance, infrastructure repair, logistics, communications, or delivery of humanitarian aid;  
-b. The Licensed Work is **not** used for combat operations, intelligence gathering, surveillance, targeting, law enforcement, population control, or security enforcement;  
-c. Any data collected, processed, or generated using the Licensed Work is not retained, repurposed, or transferred for military, intelligence, or law-enforcement use; and  
-d. The use is time-limited to the duration of the humanitarian or disaster relief operation.
-
-Any use outside these conditions constitutes a prohibited use under this License.
 
 ### 4A.6 Human Rights Violations
 Activities that materially contribute to persecution, discrimination, segregation, or deprivation of civil or human rights as recognized under international law.
 
 ### 4A.7 Biological or Environmental Harm
-Systems intended to cause large-scale harm to living organisms or ecosystems, including ecological eradication, environmental devastation, or biological warfare.
+Systems intended to cause large-scale harm to living organisms or ecosystems.
 
 #### Ethical Resource Extraction and Environmental Management Exception
 
-Notwithstanding this Section 4A.7, use of the Licensed Work is permitted for **lawful, regulated, and necessary resource extraction or environmental management activities**, provided that:
+Use is permitted for **lawful, regulated, and necessary resource extraction or environmental management**, provided that:
 
-a. The use is part of a legitimate operation related to energy, minerals, forestry, water, agriculture, infrastructure, or environmental remediation;  
+- The activity relates to energy, minerals, forestry, water, agriculture, infrastructure, or remediation;  
+- It complies with applicable environmental laws or governance frameworks, including those exercised by **First Nations** pursuant to treaty rights, self-government agreements, or First Nations law;  
+- Environmental harm is not the primary purpose and is not unnecessary or clearly disproportionate;  
+- The Licensed Work is not used for deliberate ecological destruction or irreversible damage beyond what is inherent to the lawful activity.
 
-b. The activity is conducted in compliance with applicable environmental laws, regulations, permits, and approval processes of the jurisdiction in which it occurs.  
+### Agriculture and Food Systems Exception
-For the purposes of this Section, **“applicable laws and regulations” include valid legal, regulatory, or governance frameworks exercised by First Nations with recognized authority over their lands, waters, or resources, including activities conducted pursuant to treaty rights, self-government agreements, or First Nations law**;  
 
-c. The Licensed Work is not used with the primary purpose of causing environmental damage, nor to knowingly cause environmental harm that is unnecessary, avoidable, or clearly disproportionate to the legitimate objectives of the regulated activity;  
+Use is permitted for lawful agriculture, aquaculture, livestock, veterinary, or food-production purposes, including lawful cultivation, processing, and distribution of cannabis, provided that:
 
-d. The Licensed Work is not used to plan, optimize, or carry out deliberate ecological destruction, scorched-earth extraction, or irreversible ecosystem damage where such damage is not an inherent and unavoidable consequence of the lawful activity; and  
+- The use is regulated and legitimate;  
-
+- The Licensed Work is not used to cause unnecessary suffering or mass extermination;  
-e. Where applicable, the use supports impact mitigation, reclamation, monitoring, restoration, or reduction of environmental harm during or after the activity.
+- Companion Animals and non-agricultural wildlife are not targeted.
-
-Any use outside this scope constitutes a prohibited use under this License.
-
-#### Agriculture and Food Systems Exception
-
-Notwithstanding Sections 4A.1 and 4A.7, use of the Licensed Work is permitted for lawful agricultural, aquaculture, livestock, veterinary, or food-production purposes, including activities that may result in the slaughter of animals **solely for the production of food or agricultural goods**, provided that:
-
-a. The use is part of a legitimate, regulated food or agricultural operation;  
-**For clarity, lawful cultivation, processing, and distribution of cannabis conducted in compliance with applicable federal, provincial, or territorial law is considered an agricultural and food-production purpose under this License**;  
-b. The Licensed Work is not used to design, optimize, or carry out unnecessary suffering, mass extermination, or cruelty outside normal agricultural practice;  
-c. The Licensed Work is not used for the destruction of Companion Animals, wildlife, or non-agricultural animal populations; and  
-d. The Licensed Work is not used for ecological eradication, environmental devastation, or biological or chemical harm outside lawful agricultural use.
-
-Any use outside this scope constitutes a prohibited use under this License.
 
 ### 4A.8 Lawful Civilian Law Enforcement (Permitted Use)
 
-Use of the Licensed Work by civilian law-enforcement agencies at the municipal, provincial/state, or federal level is permitted **only** where such use:
+Use by civilian law-enforcement agencies is permitted only where it supports lawful, individualized investigations, is subject to due process, and does not involve population control, mass surveillance, or prohibited purposes.
-
-a. Supports lawful, individualized investigations or public-safety operations;  
-b. Is subject to due process, judicial oversight, or applicable statutory limits;  
-c. Is not intended to cause lethal harm except where such harm is incidental and not the purpose of the system; and  
-d. Does not fall within Sections 4A.2, 4A.3, or 4A.4 of this License.
 
 ### 4A.9 Automated Targeting and Autonomous Harm
 
-Use of the Licensed Work to develop, train, deploy, or operate systems that autonomously or semi-autonomously identify, select, prioritize, track, or target individuals or groups of people for physical harm, detention, coercion, or lethal action is prohibited, regardless of whether a human operator is involved in later stages of execution.
+Use of the Licensed Work to develop or operate systems that autonomously or semi-autonomously identify, select, track, or target people for physical harm, detention, coercion, or lethal action is prohibited, regardless of human involvement.
-
-This prohibition applies to systems that materially contribute to such outcomes through automated decision-making, optimization, prediction, or recommendation, and applies irrespective of whether the system is described as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, decision support, analytics, or similar terminology.
 
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 ## 5. Time-Release Provision
 
-On the Change Date, this License automatically and irrevocably converts to the Change License for the specified version of the Licensed Work. No action by the Licensor is required.
+On the Change Date, all commercial and revenue-centered restrictions of this License are permanently removed for the specified version of the Licensed Work.
 
-This applies only to the identified version. New versions may have different Change Dates.
+After the Change Date:
+- Production Use and Service Offerings are permitted without a Commercial License; and  
+- All other terms of this License, including attribution, disclaimers, patent provisions, and **Section 4A ethical restrictions**, remain in full force and effect.
+
+This time-release applies only to the identified version. New versions may have different Change Dates or licensing terms.
 
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 ## 6. Commercial Licensing
 
-Production Use, Service Offerings, or redistribution prior to the Change Date require a Commercial License, available from Maple Open Tech under separate terms.
+Prior to the Change Date, Production Use, Service Offerings, or redistribution require a Commercial License issued by Maple Open Tech.
 
-Commercial Licenses may grant additional rights but shall not permit any use prohibited under Section 4A.
+Commercial Licenses may not authorize any use prohibited under Section 4A.
 
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 ## 7. Contributions
 
-By submitting a contribution, You grant the Licensor a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, sublicense, and distribute the contribution under this License, the Change License, or a Commercial License.
+By submitting a contribution, You grant the Licensor a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, sublicense, and distribute the contribution under this License.
 
 You represent that You have the legal right to grant this license.
 
@@ -208,7 +187,7 @@ You represent that You have the legal right to grant this license.
 
 Each contributor grants You a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license to use the Licensed Work as permitted under this License.
 
-If You initiate patent litigation alleging infringement by the Licensed Work, all rights granted to You under this License terminate automatically.
+If You initiate patent litigation alleging infringement by the Licensed Work, all rights granted under this License terminate automatically.
 
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@@ -221,56 +200,41 @@ If You do not agree, do not use the Licensed Work.
 
 ## 10. No Warranty
 
-THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED **“AS IS”** AND **“AS AVAILABLE”**, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
+THE LICENSED WORK IS PROVIDED **“AS IS”**, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
-
-You assume all risk arising from use of the Licensed Work.
 
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 ## 11. Limitation of Liability
 
-To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Licensor or contributors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of data, profits, or business interruption.
+To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Licensor’s total aggregate liability shall not exceed **CAD $100**.
-
-For free or non-commercial use, the Licensor’s total aggregate liability shall not exceed **CAD $100**.
-
-Different liability terms may apply under a separate Commercial License.
 
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 ## 12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
 
-This License is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
+This License is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada.
-
-Subject to applicable law, any dispute arising out of or relating to this License shall be brought exclusively in the courts of competent jurisdiction located in Ontario, Canada.
-
-Nothing in this License prevents the Licensor from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in the Federal Court of Canada to protect its intellectual property.
 
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-## 13. No Consumer Offering / No Foreign Targeting
+## 13. No Consumer Offering
 
-The Licensed Work is intended for professional, developer, academic, and organizational use. It is not intended for consumer or household use.
+The Licensed Work is intended for professional, developer, academic, and organizational use only.
-
-The Licensed Work is not specifically directed to users in any jurisdiction outside Canada. Use of the Licensed Work outside Canada is at the Licensee’s sole risk.
 
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 ## 14. Termination
 
-This License terminates automatically upon breach. Upon termination, You must cease use and destroy all copies of the Licensed Work.
+This License terminates automatically upon breach.  
-
+**Termination for violation of Section 4A applies both before and after the Change Date.**
-Termination does not affect rights granted under the Change License after the Change Date.
 
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 ## 15. General Provisions
 
-If any provision of this License is held unenforceable, it shall be severed and the remainder enforced.
+If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder shall remain in effect.
 
 This License constitutes the entire agreement regarding the Licensed Work.
 
-You may not assign this License without written consent from the Licensor.
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-*Maple Open Tech License (MOTL) v1.2 – Canada-Centric*
+*Maple Open Tech License (MOTL) v1.0*
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