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ADR 0006: Source lineage and independence

Status: Implemented in 0.5.

Corroboration must describe the direct provider, upstream dataset, transformation, and snapshot. Two providers that copied the same upstream assertion do not count as independent evidence merely because their URLs differ. Unknown lineage stays unknown.

Version 0.5 adds explicit source-manifest lineage and exposes it in evidence and evaluation without rewriting legacy history. It preserves provider-native provenance and never combines popularity or same-domain evidence into ownership confidence. Current admission quorum is made only from authenticated reviewers, groups and physical keys, so copied source assertions cannot increase authority.

Rejected alternatives

Counting provider names as independent evidence rewards copied datasets. Guessing lineage from matching text creates another unsupported inference. Dropping a source because lineage is unknown destroys useful conflicting evidence.

Compatibility

The v0.4 policy does not award quorum from source count, so absent lineage cannot inflate reviewer authority. Future lineage fields must be additive provenance; old assertions remain byte-identifiable and are never rewritten as independent.