Make the MIT license detectable by GitHub - #70
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The LICENSE carried an inserted "Special Note" paragraph disclaiming third party assets. GitHub's licensee gem matches a license by comparing the body against the SPDX text at a 98% similarity threshold, and that paragraph put this file at roughly 83% - so the repository reported NOASSERTION / "Other" rather than MIT, and any badge or API consumer read it as unlicensed. Remove the paragraph so the grant is verbatim SPDX MIT, and carry its wording into a README License section, which still tells readers what they need to know without breaking detection. The permission grant itself is untouched and the copyright year is unchanged; the only other edit is writing the copyright line in the conventional "Copyright (c) <year>" form. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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GitHub reported this repo as
NOASSERTION/ "Other" rather than MIT.Cause: the
LICENSEcarried an inserted "Special Note" paragraph disclaiming third party assets. GitHub's licensee gem matches a license by comparing the body against the SPDX text at a 98% similarity threshold, and that paragraph put this file at 82.65% — so the license field, the license badge, and anything else consuming it read the repo as unlicensed.Fix: remove the paragraph so the grant is verbatim SPDX MIT (verified at 100%), and carry its wording into a README
## Licensesection so the disclaimer still reaches readers.The permission grant is untouched and the copyright year is unchanged — the only other edit is the conventional
Copyright (c) <year>form.Part of a sweep across the repos reporting NOASSERTION; all carried the identical boilerplate.
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