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Finding rules means reading a lot of other people's writing. Nothing said
what of that text was allowed into the repo, which matters because the repo
is MIT-licensed and redistributable by anyone.

The catalog already held the right line by instinct: all 28 examples_bad
across the 24 rules are written rather than lifted, and the examples_ok that
quote real prose are Moby-Dick and Federalist No. 44, both public domain and
both cited. This writes that down as an invariant so a later contributor
doesn't paste in the perfect real-world specimen.

Also rules scraped corpora out of scope, and notes that a human reference
corpus must be public domain -- one built from copyrighted modern prose
can't be redistributed, which strands the precision check that depends on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018kEipqH8uKLPGz8bZbu4kP

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Finding rules means reading a lot of other people's writing. Nothing said
what of that text was allowed into the repo, which matters because the repo
is MIT-licensed and redistributable by anyone.

The catalog already held the right line by instinct: all 28 examples_bad
across the 24 rules are written rather than lifted, and the examples_ok that
quote real prose are Moby-Dick and Federalist No. 44, both public domain and
both cited. This writes that down as an invariant so a later contributor
doesn't paste in the perfect real-world specimen.

Also rules scraped corpora out of scope, and notes that a human reference
corpus must be public domain -- one built from copyrighted modern prose
can't be redistributed, which strands the precision check that depends on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018kEipqH8uKLPGz8bZbu4kP
The bullet compared two kinds of exposure before getting to the rule, which
buried it. State the rule, the reason, and the consequence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018kEipqH8uKLPGz8bZbu4kP
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