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+# CordisX Independent Plugin Exception
+
+Version 1.0, 24 August 2026
+
+This Exception is an additional permission under section 7 of the GNU Affero
+General Public License, version 3 or any later version (the "AGPL"). It applies
+only when a CordisX covered work includes a notice that this Exception applies.
+
+## 1. Definitions
+
+"Public Stable Plugin Interface" means a versioned interface that CordisX
+public documentation expressly identifies as a public plugin interface. For
+this beta, that term is limited to:
+
+- the public exports of `cordisx/contracts`;
+- the versioned plugin, manifest, capability, structured-contribution, command,
+  route, page, outlet, locale, and extension-point schemas published by
+  `cordisx/cordisx-protocol`; and
+- behavior required to invoke those exports and schemas through the documented
+  CordisX plugin lifecycle.
+
+"Interface Material" means only the declarations, type definitions, schemas,
+and minimal interface examples that are reasonably necessary to implement or
+use a Public Stable Plugin Interface. It does not include an implementation of
+the CordisX host, runtime, CLI, manager, launcher, adapter, or any private or
+undocumented interface.
+
+"Marked Template Material" means the files distributed inside
+`packages/create-cordisx-plugin/template`, and the corresponding files in a
+project generated from that template.
+
+"Independent Plugin" means a work whose purpose is to add plugin functionality
+to CordisX, which interacts with CordisX exclusively through Public Stable
+Plugin Interfaces, and which does not copy, modify, embed, or incorporate any
+other portion of a CordisX covered work except Interface Material or Marked
+Template Material as permitted below.
+
+## 2. Additional permission for independent plugins
+
+Notwithstanding the AGPL, you may:
+
+1. use, reproduce, and adapt Interface Material only as reasonably necessary to
+   create, build, test, document, distribute, or run an Independent Plugin;
+2. use, reproduce, and adapt Marked Template Material to create an Independent
+   Plugin; and
+3. license, distribute, sell, and commercially exploit that Independent Plugin
+   under terms chosen by its copyright holder, including proprietary terms.
+
+An Independent Plugin is not required to be licensed under the AGPL merely
+because it uses a Public Stable Plugin Interface, uses Interface Material as
+permitted above, was created from Marked Template Material, or runs together
+with CordisX.
+
+## 3. No exception for CordisX host code
+
+This Exception does not grant permission beyond the AGPL for any work that
+copies, modifies, embeds, incorporates, or repackages CordisX host, runtime,
+CLI, manager, launcher, adapter, or `create-cordisx-plugin` implementation
+code, other than Marked Template Material. It does not cover a substitute or
+competing host implementation, or any use of private or undocumented CordisX
+interfaces. Those works remain governed by the AGPL.
+
+## 4. Notices and trademarks
+
+When you distribute Interface Material or Marked Template Material itself, you
+must keep a copy of this Exception or an accessible reference to it. This
+Exception grants no rights in CordisX names, logos, or trademarks.
+
+## 5. Status of this exception
+
+This is a CordisX-specific additional permission. It is not a standard SPDX
+license exception and has not been reviewed or approved by the Open Source
+Initiative or the Free Software Foundation. Legal review is recommended before
+the first stable CordisX release.