From d4d10e236485ce1ce7fdbc092ac929b1bd086588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Lehnen <30603423+iderex@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:54:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Take out the readme paragraph saying there is no licence file

Closes #148.

README.md said there is no licence file four lines above the section naming
AGPL-3.0 and linking LICENSE. Both statements were on the default branch at
once, so a reader who stopped at the first one concluded they may not reuse
anything here while the tree carried terms that say they may, and which of the
two they believed depended on how far down the page they read.

The paragraph was in the blob a restoration put back, and the change that put it
back said in its own message that taking it out is a separate change. This is
that change and nothing else moves with it.

LICENSE is on the default branch and the section that names it is unchanged:

    git rev-parse origin/main:LICENSE
    fadd1f611bdae23852c5afe8ee6ba9f03617b34a

What this does not do. Nothing here declares the licence to a check.
DeclaredLicence in internal/invariants/invariants.go is still the empty string
and the licence leg still reports that it was not asked rather than that it was
satisfied, which is #47.

Signed-off-by: Nils Lehnen <30603423+iderex@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 README.md | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7f6f5a3..9af6a34 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ directory is a history of the argument rather than a description of today.
 [docs/privacy.md](docs/privacy.md) is the privacy position, including what it
 does not cover.
 
-There is no licence file. That is not a neutral state, since without one nobody
-has permission to reuse anything here, and it is the first entry of the open
-question that collects the decisions this plan does not take. Until it is
-answered, treat everything on this board as readable and not as reusable.
-
 ## License
 
 AGPL-3.0, copyright 2026 Nils Lehnen.