Pre-release development
Breaking changes are allowed. Maintainers prioritize architectural correctness, real-world fit, clear schemas, and implementable validation.
Governance
Fast while it is draft. Structured when it stabilizes.
Labelcopy is currently in pre-release development. Project leads and maintainers make final decisions while the model is still being shaped, with a planned transition toward RFC-driven community governance after v1.0.
Community governance
Stable versions are expected to use RFCs, review periods, semantic versioning, migration guidance, and stronger backward compatibility rules.
Maintainers and subject experts
The project needs technical maintainers and music-industry experts across metadata, rights, mastering, production, distribution, archives, and network infrastructure.
Open specifications
The public standard is intended to remain open and implementable by commercial and non-commercial projects. See the specs repository for current license files.