# Release & Distribution Strategy

Long-term strategy work for Lanework's release, distribution, and business model: licensing, monetization, openness, marketing, and goals. Sibling to `research/` (the competitive-landscape corpus, which this directory draws on) but different in kind — `research/` gathers evidence about the market; `strategy/` turns evidence into positions, decisions, and plans for Lanework specifically.

## Documents

- [00-charter.md](00-charter.md) — the framing document: strategic goal, the two tier anchors, what is already ruled, the decision surface, the tensions to resolve, and the research agenda (start here)

Workstream documents are added as they happen, numbered in sequence.

## Conventions

- Same conventions as `research/`: each document opens with a scope note and a dated line; prose is unwrapped — one line per paragraph or list item.
- A **position** is a working stance open to revision; a **ruling** is a decision recorded in DESIGN/ or RELEASE.md and stands unless explicitly re-ruled. Strategy documents may propose re-rulings but never silently contradict one.