Core Principle

A person initiating a fork must reasonably address post-fork identity, resources, existing obligations, relationships, and initial protection of new persons.

Detailed Rules

  • Debt or legal risk may not be dumped onto one branch unable to refuse.
  • Provenance and succession records should be created before forking.
  • No branch may be arbitrarily degraded as a fake copy after divergence.

Scope and Limits

Responsibility does not create permanent control over successors; as autonomous history grows, branches become independent subjects of responsibility.