From 4f2865862e93a4b098585d0f9be350401bfef50a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitch Allen Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 06:51:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Make the MIT license detectable by GitHub 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) " form. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) --- LICENSE | 4 +--- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 276283d..b2b5359 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ The MIT License -Copyright 2018-2026 Mitch Allen - -Special Note: This license does not apply to any third party assets that were imported into the project as a utility or for demonstration purposes. Contact the authors of those assets for licensing information. +Copyright (c) 2018-2026 Mitch Allen Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 84b5e5b..ee8d0dc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -357,3 +357,13 @@ Tags matching `v*` trigger two workflows that build and push multi-platform (`li Each publish creates both a versioned tag and updates `latest`. +* * * + +## License + +MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). + +The license covers this project's own code. It does not apply to any third +party assets that were imported into the project as a utility or for +demonstration purposes; contact the authors of those assets for their +licensing information.