# Maintenance

`kaal:entity:maintenance`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `maintenance`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2025.

**2021**

- [3782198-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-016) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Paid corporate contributors are a source of tension in open source communities: they can outwork and push out volunteers, then leave once their employer's duties are complete, leaving no one to maintain and upgrade the software.
  > These workers often devote far more effort to a project and sometimes push out volunteers. Then the paid workers leave once their duties are complete, leaving no one to maintain and upgrade the software in the future.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**2025**

- [5887242-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-031) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The automated maintenance system is the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.
  > Far from a mere cleanup routine, the automated maintenance system constitutes the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/maintenance.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.