# Userland module: the rules this project's own funding pool runs under. # Dogfooding from day one -- backers are the first citizens, and the first # amendments will be about us. Userland changes are MINOR-class (K4.1). module: funding-pool title: FablePool Funding Pool articles: - id: U-FP-1 number: 1 title: The Pool layer: userland clauses: - id: U-FP-1.1 title: Composition text: >- The pool comprises all funds contributed by backers to this project. Contribution confers citizenship under Kernel Article 2 and nothing else: no equity, no weighted vote, no priority claim. - id: U-FP-1.2 title: Custody and ledger binding text: >- Every inbound contribution and every outbound payment is recorded in the audit ledger under Kernel Article 8 before or at the moment it settles. An unrecorded payment is unauthorized. - id: U-FP-2 number: 2 title: Disbursement layer: userland clauses: - id: U-FP-2.1 title: Milestone disbursement text: >- Funds leave the pool only against a milestone. A milestone payout requires a disbursement proposal ratified at patch-class thresholds, naming the milestone, the amount, and the payee, and a published milestone report. A single disbursement may not exceed the disbursement cap as a fraction of the pool balance at proposal opening. parameters: disbursement_cap: type: ratio value: "1/4" forkable: true min: "1/20" max: "1/2" - id: U-FP-2.2 title: No self-dealing quorum text: >- The payee of a disbursement proposal may not cast a ballot on it. The eligibility snapshot for a disbursement proposal excludes the payee. - id: U-FP-3 number: 3 title: Dissolution and Exit layer: userland clauses: - id: U-FP-3.1 title: Dissolution text: >- A dissolution proposal ratified at minor-class thresholds winds up the pool: all uncommitted funds are returned to backers pro rata to contributions, recorded entry by entry in the ledger. - id: U-FP-3.2 title: Exit rule text: >- As required by Kernel clause K7.5: a citizen who exits before dissolution has no claim on the pool, and the pool has no claim on the citizen. Contributions are gifts to the commons, vested on receipt; exit is free and immediate.