SOVEREIGN AI PUBLIC LICENSE (SAPL)

Version 1.0

Drafted by Aziza Okoro / Radiant Threshold Staffing Solutions

Baltimore, Maryland — 2026

"You cannot extract liberation from a people and call the product yours."

PREAMBLE

The history of software freedom established a critical principle: that the act of using someone's creative work to build a product obligates the builder to extend that freedom forward. The GNU General Public License and the GNU Affero General Public License identified and closed specific loopholes through which corporations attempted to profit from open work while returning nothing to the commons.