Contribute

The draft improves the way open source improves: in public, by pull request, against stated criteria. Three repositories:

• own-the-machine: the law, its memorandum, the review ledger (CC BY-SA 4.0).
• own-the-machine-tools: the review gates and linter (MIT).
• own-the-machine-site: this site (AGPL-3.0).

The merge criteria

Every change to the legal text must survive four tests: it claims assets, not flows; it reaches every citizen equally; it does not weaken legal protection against diversion; and it establishes the claim while capital forms, before crystallisation. Mechanical constraints (the DC table in the objections) apply before merge. Substantive changes run all six adversarial gates; prose changes run legal form and layer fidelity; editorial changes run the linter. Verdicts and editorial dispositions are recorded publicly. A pull request that weakens a protection does not merge under the published governance rules.

Ways in

• Argue. Take on an objection, or raise a new one at full strength. The strongest contribution is the attack we have not answered.
• Draft. Improve an article against the Joint Practical Guide conventions; the linter and gates will meet you.
• Translate. Languages are promoted from machine-translated to human-verified one page at a time; native readers are the bottleneck.
• Build. The site and tools are ordinary open source with issues waiting.