Self-hosting a design system, and why it's separate from using the tokens
editorial(design-system): de-narrate self-hosting-customer-controlled-design-systems' AGPL retraction note + update stale token count (Track-B) — confirmed AGPL-3.0-or-later claim still accurate against the ratified root LICENSE; confirmed DESIGN_VAULT_DIR/DESIGN_TENANT/DESIGN_BIND env vars are real in app-privategit-design/src/config.rs; replaced the stale fixed 146-token count with an open-ended framing that won't drift into a new stale number; register-clean EN+ES
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ and exactly where the line between them sits. The design-token *format* problem is solved. The W3C Design Tokens Community Group published the first stable version of its Format Module in October 2025, and the format is implemented across the major authoring and build tools. PointSav's token graph — 146 resolved leaf tokens across primitive, semantic, and dark-theme tiers at the time of writing — is published in that tools. PointSav's token graph — over 200 resolved leaf tokens across primitive, semantic, and dark-theme tiers, growing as the system does — is published in that format, under Apache-2.0, in a public git repository. That is the whole transaction. A team that wants the tokens clones or @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ here matters: recipes, and research files in the design-system repository. This is the layer you consume directly, and the layer a fork replaces with its own content. - **Server source — AGPL-3.0-or-later** (Correction retracted, 2026-08-02: an earlier pass flagged this as unverifiable, checking a stale local checkout of `app-privategit-design`. The real, ratified root `LICENSE` ("MULTI-LICENSE NOTICE" v1.1, effective 2026-05-24) places every `app-privategit-*/` directory under AGPL-3.0-or-later — this article's claim is correct.). The serving engine - **Server source — AGPL-3.0-or-later.** The serving engine (`app-privategit-design` in the PointSav monorepo). Running it unmodified for your own organization carries no unusual burden; an organization that modifies the server and offers it to users over a network takes on AGPL