Declare the licence by parts, because the boundary runs inside two files (#1) - #141
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…les (#1) Entry 1 of #1 was answered on 2026-08-24: the code carries AGPL-3.0-or-later, and the CC-BY-4.0 split for the design system and the page prose takes the form of one declaration by parts rather than a header in each file. Nothing in the tree said so, and three sites went on telling a reader the question was open. `decisions/licensing.md` is that declaration. It says which bytes of the served pages are under which licence, because both pages hold their stylesheet, their markup and their script in the same bytes as the words a reader reads, so a table of paths is wrong about part of every file it names. The failure this prevents is a reader taking the root `LICENSE`, or the licence field the platform derives from it, for the whole answer, and treating the design system as something that cannot be adopted without inheriting a code licence. Removing that question is the reason the CC-BY-4.0 half was decided. README and CONTRIBUTING drop their entry-1-is-open pointers, which the same answer asked for. The CC-BY-4.0 text itself is not in the tree; the declaration says so in its own words rather than glossing it, and #140 holds that gap.
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Scope: decisions/, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
Superseded by #142, and this is why
The commit on this branch,
6ff711c, carries a good signature and no DCOsign-off, so the
DCO sign-offcheck refused it:Read from that run's log on 2026-08-25. Every commit on this board's mainline
carries the trailer and this one did not, which is a defect in the commit rather
than in the check.
The repair is a new branch rather than a rewrite of this one. Whether anybody has
fetched a ref is not knowable from the machine that pushed it, so a wrong history
is corrected under a new name and the old one is abandoned, which costs a branch
name and destroys nothing. This branch is left where it is.
The replacement is #142, at
195faa5, cherry-picked with the sign-off. It is thesame bytes, checked rather than asserted:
Run 2026-08-25. What the change does, the evidence for it and the gate run are in
#142's body rather than restated here, because two copies of one argument drift.
Nothing here reached
main.