Restructure license per AI legal review findings (#2–#8)

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LEGAL-REVIEW.md

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 Status: **PENDING**
 
-Before tagging `v1.0.0` or adopting this license in FastLED, an open-source
-licensing attorney must review and approve at least:
-
-- the definitions of First Sale and Modified FastLED;
-- the requirement that source be public on the date of first sale;
-- the public-fork or complete public bug-report-patch mechanisms;
-- the Larger Work and proprietary-application boundary;
-- contributor copyright/patent grants, patent termination, and provenance;
-- compatibility with downstream licenses and package registries; and
-- the legally non-remedial character of the AI-agent instructions.
-
-Approval must record reviewer identity, date, reviewed commit, and any required
-changes. Removing this gate without documented review is not approval.
+Before tagging `v1.0.0`, adopting this license in FastLED, or stamping the
+non-release-candidate identifier `LicenseRef-FastLED-Reciprocal-1.0`, an
+open-source licensing attorney must review and approve the license text.
+The header tool enforces this mechanically: `tools/license_headers.py`
+refuses `update`/`apply` for a non-`-rc` identifier until this file records
+`Status: APPROVED`.
+
+Approval must record reviewer identity, date, reviewed commit, and any
+required changes. Removing this gate without documented review is not
+approval.
+
+## AI first-pass review (2026-08-24)
+
+An AI multi-agent first-pass review was completed and filed as issues
+[#2](https://github.com/FastLED/license/issues/2)–[#8](https://github.com/FastLED/license/issues/8)
+(meta: #8). The license was restructured in response. That review is input
+to — not a substitute for — the attorney review above.
+
+## Decisions applied in the restructuring (pending attorney ratification)
+
+These were applied with the review's recommended defaults, plus steward
+direction on timing. The reviewing attorney must confirm each on the
+record:
+
+1. **Single-instrument construction.** The license is now one
+   self-contained document: a modified MPL 2.0 (renamed per its Section
+   10.3, FastLED as steward, Mozilla references limited to the permitted
+   differs-from note) with the Additional Terms as Section 11 and
+   rewritten Exhibits. `MPL-2.0.txt` remains only as the unmodified base
+   text for provenance comparison.
+2. **Section 11.3 is an express condition of the copyright grant only**
+   (Section 2.7). The contributor patent grant under 2.1(b) is
+   deliberately NOT conditioned on Section 11.3 — contributors never
+   agreed to have their patents armed as a sales-disclosure tripwire.
+   Confirm this allocation.
+3. **Exhibit B is attached; Secondary-License distribution is closed**
+   (Sections 1.5, 3.3, 11.6). This makes the license deliberately
+   GPL-incompatible in exchange for making Section 11.3 non-bypassable.
+   Confirm this trade-off with the steward; it cannot be had both ways.
+4. **Zero-day timing is intentional and per-version** (steward decision,
+   2026-08-24). The development period before first commercial transfer
+   is the compliance window; developing in a public fork is standing
+   compliance (11.3(b)). There is no post-transfer cure that
+   retroactively authorizes: units reproduced or transferred before
+   publication remain unlicensed (11.3(f)), while publication reinstates
+   prospectively under Section 5.1. Confirm the condition/covenant
+   framing and the 11.3(f) interaction with Section 5.1.
+5. **The trigger is "Triggering Transfer",** per-version and recurring,
+   bound to the party that created or commissioned the modifications,
+   with carve-outs for intra-group transfers, contract manufacturers,
+   leases that convey no copy, and downstream resellers, plus a
+   free-firmware-with-paid-product limb and an explicit SaaS statement
+   (11.1). The term "First Sale" was removed to avoid collision with the
+   17 U.S.C. §109 exhaustion doctrine.
+6. **AI-agent guidance is fully de-legalized** (Section 11.7): not part
+   of the license, excluded from the Section 3.4 notice-integrity rule,
+   header lines reduced and marked removable, document reordered
+   authorization-first, machine-readable `ai-policy.toml` added.
+7. **Release-candidate status moved from prose into the identifier**
+   (`LicenseRef-FastLED-Reciprocal-1.0-rc1`); the former LICENSE §4
+   self-review clause was removed from the instrument and lives here.
+
+## Attorney checklist
+
+- the Section 11.1 definitions (Official FastLED Repository, Modified
+  FastLED, Triggering Transfer, Publicly Available);
+- the Section 11.3 condition: mechanics, duration, third-party
+  interference safe harbor, 11.3(f) remedy model, separate-license valve;
+- Section 2.7 condition scope (copyright-only) and the Jacobsen/MDY
+  condition-vs-covenant framing;
+- the Exhibit B / GPL-incompatibility trade-off (decision 3 above);
+- the modified Sections 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4, 9, 10 against
+  MPL 2.0, and whether the Section 10.3 rename obligations are satisfied;
+- contributor copyright/patent grants, provenance, and the MIT
+  relicensing path (sublicensing theory; notice preservation — see the
+  ownership-audit item in README);
+- compatibility with downstream licenses, package registries, and SCA
+  tooling; and
+- the informational, non-remedial character of the AI-agent guidance and
+  `ai-policy.toml`.
+
+## Open items deliberately not decided here
+
+- Whether to modify Section 8 (defendant's-forum litigation venue,
+  inherited from MPL) for an enforcement-oriented license.
+- Whether to add a BUSL/FSL-style sunset or reversion clause.
+- The strategic comparison recorded in issue #8: unmodified MPL-2.0 plus
+  a published upstreaming norm plus commercial licensing, versus this
+  bespoke instrument. The steward has elected to proceed with the bespoke
+  instrument; counsel should still price the comparison.