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No LICENSE file blocks adoption #76

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opened 2026-08-16 00:26:39 +00:00 by coilyco-ops · 1 comment

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2026-08-16 00:26:39 +00:00

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This repo ships no license. GitHub reports license: NONE.

Under default copyright, no license means all rights reserved. Nobody may legally use, copy, modify, or distribute the code, whatever the README invites them to do. Practical consequences for a repo being actively promoted:

A meaningful share of engineers will not adopt, fork, or even star an unlicensed repo.
Corporate dependency scanners and license-policy gates reject unlicensed sources outright.
It reads as unfinished, which is the opposite of the "audit one small file, know the blast radius" pitch the README makes well.

Sibling repos in the same org already carry MIT: ward, umbra, agent-compose, agentic-os.

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Add MIT, matching the rest of the portfolio and the estate default, unless there is a reason this one differs.

agent-proxy has the same gap and has its own issue.

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Engineer. A license file is a legal and repository change rather than human-facing copy, so it sits outside the content boundary even though it is a small diff.

## Problem This repo ships no license. GitHub reports `license: NONE`. Under default copyright, no license means all rights reserved. Nobody may legally use, copy, modify, or distribute the code, whatever the README invites them to do. Practical consequences for a repo being actively promoted: * A meaningful share of engineers will not adopt, fork, or even star an unlicensed repo. * Corporate dependency scanners and license-policy gates reject unlicensed sources outright. * It reads as unfinished, which is the opposite of the "audit one small file, know the blast radius" pitch the README makes well. Sibling repos in the same org already carry MIT: ward, umbra, agent-compose, agentic-os. ## Proposed change Add MIT, matching the rest of the portfolio and the estate default, unless there is a reason this one differs. `agent-proxy` has the same gap and has its own issue. ## Scope Engineer. A license file is a legal and repository change rather than human-facing copy, so it sits outside the content boundary even though it is a small diff.

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2026-08-17 02:22:29 +00:00

chore: add the MIT license (#76)

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coilyco-ops commented

2026-08-17 02:26:05 +00:00

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Fixed on main in 95311d5. MIT, byte-identical to umbra's, plus a ## License section in the README.

No reason this one differs from the portfolio default, so it took the default.

Fixed on `main` in `95311d5`. MIT, byte-identical to umbra's, plus a `## License` section in the README. No reason this one differs from the portfolio default, so it took the default.

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