docs(licence): record GitHub single-display resolution (Addendum A8)#447
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GitHub surfaces only one repo-level licence (licensee-detected from the root LICENSE). Rule 1's per-file split (MPL-2.0 code / CC-BY-SA-4.0 prose) cannot be shown at the repo level, so the estate resolves the single displayed licence to MPL-2.0 — root LICENSE = MPL-2.0, both texts present in LICENSES/, prose stays CC-BY-SA-4.0 by per-file header. Adds Addendum A8 to LICENCE-POLICY.adoc and a [github_display] block to the machine- readable mirror. Additive only; Rules 1-3 unchanged; no per-file licence header is modified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012MpYSh6Wy8YMBH2E3qVyT7
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The estate licence policy (Rule 1) splits per-file SPDX two ways —
MPL-2.0for code,CC-BY-SA-4.0for prose. GitHub, however, surfaces only one repo-level licence (licensee-detected from the rootLICENSE). The owner resolved that single displayed licence to MPL-2.0 while keeping both licence texts present in every repo. That rationale was implicit in the canon but never explicitly recorded; this PR captures it.Change
Additive only — Rules 1–3 are unchanged and no per-file licence header is modified (respecting Addendum A2's "manual, per-file, owner-only" rule for header remediation).
LICENCE-POLICY.adoc— new Addendum A8 documenting: rootLICENSE= MPL-2.0 text (drives GitHub's detected licence), bothLICENSES/MPL-2.0.txt+LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txtpresent, prose stays CC-BY-SA-4.0 via per-file SPDX header (not a second root licence). Notes the separate-LICENSE-docspattern a few repos use as an acceptable equivalent..machine_readable/licensing-policy.toml— mirrors A8 as a[github_display]block (the machine-enforced mirror; kept in sync with the.adocsource of truth).Why this is in-bounds
This is authoring a clarifying, dated addendum that reflects the owner's 2026-07-01 statement — not a licence sweep or a header rewrite. It records why the root
LICENSEis MPL-2.0 rather than dual.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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