feat(license): §4.3 v1.38 LICENSE layout — canonical text at root, LICENSES/ links to it - #2
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…CENSES/ links to it The root LICENSE was a 1636 B truncated GPL-3.0 ending in the placeholder line "[Full GPL-3.0 text available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt]" — the license text was not actually distributed with the work, which GPL-3.0 section 4 requires, and GitHub reported NOASSERTION. There was no LICENSES/ directory at all, so the repo was not REUSE-compliant either. The full canonical FSF text is now installed at the root and LICENSES/ has been created. Standard §4.3 (v1.38): the root LICENSE is a regular file holding the verbatim canonical license text; LICENSES/<SPDX-id>.txt for that license symlinks back to it. GitHub's detector reads git blobs, so a symlinked root LICENSE reports NOASSERTION; reuse reads the filesystem and follows the link. The text exists exactly once. Only LICENSE and LICENSES/ are touched. Secondary licenses in LICENSES/ stay regular files. reuse lint: not-run -> fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Brings this repo into compliance with The Steelbore Standard §4.3 as amended in v1.38.
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The root LICENSE was a 1636 B truncated GPL-3.0 ending in the placeholder line "[Full GPL-3.0 text available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt]" — the license text was not actually distributed with the work, which GPL-3.0 section 4 requires, and GitHub reported NOASSERTION. There was no LICENSES/ directory at all, so the repo was not REUSE-compliant either. The full canonical FSF text is now installed at the root and LICENSES/ has been created.
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LICENSE: regular file (mode100644) holding the canonical, unmodifiedGPL-3.0-or-latertext.LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt: symlink to../LICENSE(mode120000).LICENSES/is untouched — secondary licenses (§4.2 upstream texts, other artifact classes per §4.1.1) stay regular files.Why this direction
GitHub's license detector reads git blobs, and a symlink's blob is the target path, not the license text — a symlinked root
LICENSEis reported asNOASSERTION.reusereads the working tree through the filesystem, so it follows the link inLICENSES/and lints clean. The text exists exactly once, with no drift.Verification
reuse lint:not-run→failNOASSERTION(expectedGPL-3.0after merge)LICENSE/LICENSES/paths changed🤖 Generated with Claude Code