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…of what this means is worth writing out, because it is easy to read past the word “sole discretion” in prose. Call u a licensee’s monthly active users at release, and define licence validity as $L(u) = \begin{cases} 1, & u \le 7 \times 10^{8} \\ g, & u > 7 \times 10^{8} \end{cases}$. where g $\in$ \{0, 1\} is not a fixed rule but a discretionary grant decided by the licensor after the fact. Below the threshold, “open” behaves like a normal permissive licence. Above it, the licence is not denied — it is converted into a negotiation whose outcome the model’s own publisher controls. That…

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