diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 856eca1..68bb989 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -221,8 +221,14 @@ one licence for a tree that grants under two:
     gh api repos/Flowfin/hub --jq '.license.spdx_id'
     AGPL-3.0
 
-Run 2026-08-25. Nothing on the platform side can be made to state both, which is
-why the declaration is a file in the tree.
+That field holds one licence and cannot hold two:
+
+    gh api repos/Flowfin/hub --jq '.license | type'
+    object
+
+Both run 2026-08-25. The declaration is a file in the tree because the tree is
+where this repository answers a licence question, and a reader who stops at that
+field will not have the whole answer.
 
 The plugin repositories this catalogue lists are separate repositories under
 their own terms. A catalogue listing something is not a statement about its
diff --git a/decisions/licensing.md b/decisions/licensing.md
index 50eacb8..9636ef7 100644
--- a/decisions/licensing.md
+++ b/decisions/licensing.md
@@ -121,8 +121,17 @@ what a single root `LICENSE` gets:
     gh api repos/Flowfin/hub --jq '.license.spdx_id'
     AGPL-3.0
 
-Run 2026-08-25. A reader who takes that field for the whole answer will miss this
-file, and nothing on the platform side can be made to state two.
+That field holds one licence and cannot hold two, which is a property of the
+field rather than a judgement about it:
+
+    gh api repos/Flowfin/hub --jq '.license | type'
+    object
+
+Both run 2026-08-25. So a reader who takes that field for the whole answer will
+miss this file. What the platform can be made to say elsewhere, in a description
+or a page of its own, is not read here and no claim is made about it: the reason
+this declaration is a file in the tree is that the tree is where a licence
+question is answered, not that no other surface exists.
 
 ## What refuses a departure