docs: add MIT license - #25
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The README had a 'License & Governance' section that never named a license, and package.json had no license field, so the project was technically all-rights-reserved despite presenting as open source. - LICENSE: MIT, verbatim canonical text, (c) 2026 MD SAIF - package.json: declare "license": "MIT" - README: state the license under the existing heading
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The repo presented as open source — the README has a License & Governance section and the landing page footer says "open source under the project's licence" — but no license was ever declared. Without a LICENSE file the code is legally all-rights-reserved, so nobody could reuse or fork it.
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license: nullon the repo, and theopen-sourcetopic had nothing backing it.Changes
LICENSEpackage.json"license": "MIT"README.mdNotes
gh api licenses/mit) and is a word-for-word match, so GitHub's license detector will pick it up and show an MIT badge.docs/is untouched and stays ongh-pages.