Same workflow defect as beyondnetcode/Shell.Aop#8 (already merged and green), plus two packaging bugs that made dotnet pack produce broken or no output.

Root cause 1 — the workflow was never valid

on: declared tags: as a top-level key, which is not a GitHub Actions event:

on:
  push:
    branches: [main, develop]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main, develop]
  tags:          # <- not a valid event
    - 'v*'

GitHub rejects the whole file. Every run in this repo's history failed in 0 seconds with "This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue" — CI has never executed, and the 2 tests in this repo have never run on any commit.

Root cause 2 — packaging

1. NU5019 — file not found. BeyondNetCode.Shell.Factory referenced ../../LICENSE and BeyondNetCode.Shell.Factory.Installer referenced ../../../LICENSE. Both assume a src/<project>/ layout; the projects live at the repo root, so the paths resolve outside the repository. Corrected to ../.

2. LICENSE landed in a subfolder. <PackagePath>LICENSE</PackagePath> has no file extension, so NuGet treats it as a directory — verified by unpacking the produced .nupkg, which contained LICENSE/LICENSE instead of LICENSE. Corrected to <PackagePath>/</PackagePath>. This one packed without error, so it would have shipped silently to NuGet with the license in the wrong place; Shell.ddd hit the same bug but failed loudly because it also sets PackageLicenseFile.

Workflow fixes

• tags: ['v*'] moved under push:
• version job: dropped github.event_name == 'tag' — tag pushes arrive as push
• pack matrix points at the real project locations (repo root, not src/)
• -p:PackageVersion= replaces --version:, which is not a dotnet pack option
• --no-build dropped; the job runs on a fresh runner with nothing pre-built
• matrix values are folder names — upload-artifact rejects names containing /
• release now depends on publish
• workflow renamed CI / CD → CI; README badge switched to the file-based URL

Verification

Locally on .NET 10.0.201 (matching global.json):

dotnet build BeyondNet.Factory.sln -c Release  → 0 errors (3 warnings)
dotnet test  BeyondNet.Factory.sln -c Release  → 2/2 passed
dotnet pack  <both matrix projects> -p:PackageVersion=9.9.9-test

Both packages produced, each with lib/net10.0/ and LICENSE + README.md at the package root — verified with unzip -l.

Before releasing

NUGET_API_KEY must exist in the nuget-release environment, or publish fails at the last step.

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