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decision(atlas): external-content ingestion policy — the three zones and what is stored per zone #6052
Description
Parent: #6024 (licensing gate for the external corpus). Research source: prior-art doc ~/workspace/scratch/atlas-ingestion-brief-2026-11-04/prior-art-research.md (2026-11-04). Follow-up 31 (Cluster 6). The gate analysis itself is posted as a research comment on #6024 (answered-provisional).
Decision to make (research bottom line, in substance)
GitHub ToS (effective 2026-04-27) §D: copyright stays with the commenter; the D.4 license runs to GitHub only; the D.5 user license covers use through the Service / by forking only; D.6 inbound=outbound is contested for comment text; comments are not Creative Commons (CC covers GitHub's own docs: CC BY 4.0 content / MIT code). The defensible postures by zone:
| Zone | Posture |
|---|---|
| Our own repos (Drew's + org; his comments anywhere) | Clear — ingest freely (subject to tiering) |
| External repos where Drew participated | Private personal search defensible; no redistribution |
| External public repos generally (bulk) | Private personal search only; serving others / redistributing is not defensible on current sources. Factual metadata (titles, URLs, timestamps, counts, hashes) is always safe |
Scope
Turn the zones into the corpus policy the first-pass build (#6025) and the GitHub extraction task (#6023) execute against: per zone — full text vs metadata-only vs excluded; snippet-display rules; what changes if the corpus is ever queried by anyone but Drew.
Done looks like
A decision doc recorded here and linked from #6023/#6025, so the build gates on zones, not on vibes.
Activity
developing-today commentedon Nov 5, 2026
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dezren39 commentedon Nov 5, 2026
🤖 Agent note · escalated
Triage — task 10418, issue #6052
Verified fresh: issue #6052 OPEN,
kind/design,area/infra— no hard-stop labels. The research bottom line is already in the issue body (GitHub ToS §D analysis, answered-provisional gate comment on parent issue #6024).My read (worker review first, per protocol): the three-zone posture in the body is sound and conservative — own repos: ingest freely; external repos where Drew participated: private personal search only, no redistribution; external public repos (bulk): private personal search only, factual metadata always safe. I recommend adopting it as written.
Why this escalates instead of closing as triaged-and-routed: ratifying a copyright/ToS posture for bulk external-content ingestion is a decision only Drew can make — it sets what issues #6023 and #6025 are allowed to build. Until he ratifies, those builds gate on this issue. Task 10418 is blocked as escalated-to-user with this read attached; issue #6052 stays OPEN with
user/escalated.developing-today commentedon Nov 5, 2026
Ruling (Drew, main chat 2026-11-05): not ratified today. Drew's stated priority: "router and wifi networking first." The three-zone ingestion policy ratification waits behind the router/WiFi networking work.