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- Around line 89-90: Update the license-layout guidance around the LICENSE path
to specify a root LICENSE file for a single license and a root LICENSES/
directory containing one file per license for multiple licenses; preserve the
existing filename guidance.
- Around line 91-93: Update the MIT license instructions in the contributing
documentation to tell maintainers to replace the SPDX template’s year and
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A review on #922 caught two things in the licensing section. The first is a real gap. The SPDX texts arrive with placeholders in them, and MIT opens on `Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>`. Saying to copy the published text without saying to fill those in describes a file that names nobody and grants nothing. This repository's own `LICENSE/MIT.txt` is worse than that — it carries no copyright line at all — but that is a file to fix rather than a sentence, and not this change. The second was that the paragraph ruling out a `LICENSE.md` justified itself with GitHub being unable to say what the project is under. That justification was wrong: GitHub says nothing about this repository either way. Its API reports no license at all here, while the SDK, which keeps one MIT file at its root, reports MIT. So the reason given has been replaced with the one that holds on its own — prose about licensing is not a license, and a reader after the terms should not have to separate the two. Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5 Refs: #642
Three sentences and a `TODO` stood where the licensing guidance should be. They said contributions are released under the project's licenses and that the licenses may be in a folder, which is true and is not the part a contributor needs: what those licenses are, where each is written down, and what submitting a change means for it. So the guidance says what this organization actually does. A license text is a file named for its SPDX identifier, ending in `.txt`, holding the text SPDX publishes rather than one retyped. A project offering several keeps one file each in a `LICENSE` directory. Those published texts arrive with placeholders in them — MIT opens on `Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>` — so the guidance says to fill in the year and the holder before committing the file. A copy that still carries the placeholders names nobody and grants nothing. What the naming rules out is a `LICENSE.md` explaining an arrangement of licenses. Prose about licensing is not a license, and somebody looking for the terms should not have to sort one from the other first. The same set appears twice more, as an SPDX expression in `package.json` and in prose in the `README.md`, and the three agree. Saying so is worth a paragraph, because a reader who finds only one of the three has no way to know whether the others exist. The `Contribution` subheading is the wording the issue proposed, with `dual` dropped: this repository offers three licenses, not two. This repository's own `LICENSE/MIT.txt` carries no copyright line at all, so it is exactly the file the new sentence rules out. That is a file to fix rather than a sentence, and not this change. Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5 Refs: #642
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Before:
CONTRIBUTING.mdgave licensing three sentences and aTODO. They saidcontributions are released under the project's licenses and that the licenses
may be in a folder. A contributor could not learn from them what the licenses
are, where each one is written down, or what submitting a change means for it.
After: a
## Licensesection says what this organization actually does, and a### Contributionsubsection says what submitting a change means for the worksubmitted.
It replaces those three sentences and the
TODOwith that section.How: a license text is a file named for its SPDX identifier, ending in
.txt,holding the text SPDX publishes rather than one retyped; a project offering
several keeps one file each in a
LICENSEdirectory. Those published textsarrive with placeholders in them, so the section says to fill in the year and
the copyright holder before committing the file. What the naming rules out is a
LICENSE.mdexplaining an arrangement of licenses: prose about licensing is nota license, and somebody looking for the terms should not have to sort one from
the other first. The same set appears twice more, as an SPDX expression in
package.jsonand in prose in theREADME.md, and the section says so, becausea reader who finds one of the three has no way to know the others exist. Two
link definitions are added, for the SPDX license list and for
spdx/license-list-data.The
### Contributionwording is the one proposed in the issue, withdualdropped: this repository offers three licenses, not two. It also says what the
sign-off does and does not do, since the two are easy to conflate.
The rest of the issue is untouched: an ADR explaining why three licenses is a
decision to be written, not prose to be fixed.
This repository's own
LICENSE/MIT.txtcarries no copyright line at all, so itis the file the new placeholder sentence rules out. Fixing it is a separate
change.
Refs: #642