i think i found the center point of our discrepancy.
Yep, and I agree that the Chippewa entry is unclear. The Deployment section
should be talking about the 3040s, because of how the book is framed, but "redesign" is the wrong word to describe resurrecting or copying a Star League variant, and (whichever year it turns out to be) the phrase
"they were going to make the fighter anyway" doesn't clarify whether or not the Taurians were already building Chippewas.
No worries about your writing and tone. Your English is good (leaps and bounds beyond my paltry Spanish or German); any confusion between us was the same kind I see all the time between native English speakers. Your methodical, point-by-point post clarified things, and I don't find it condescending it at all; I hope my own responses have not seemed condescending either.
Or the recent licensing was simply the Taurians producing the Chippewa already, and instead of going after them in court or something, the two groups arranged for a "license" deal.
If so, it would have to happen when the Lyrans can exert legal pressure on the Taurians, which means after the third Whitting Conference in 3064 (when the Taurians join the Second Star League).