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fix(license): ship the full Apache-2.0 text, not the short notice - #35
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GitHub reports NOASSERTION for this repo. The cause is not a missing license: the LICENSE file exists, but it is the 750-byte short-form notice that *references* the license without including it. GitHub Licensee matches the full 11KB text, so a short notice reads as undetected. This is legally thin as well as machine-unreadable. The short notice states the grant but not the terms that carry it: no express patent license, no contributor-licensing-in, no redistribution conditions, no warranty disclaimer. Replaced with the canonical 202-line Apache-2.0 text plus the same copyright notice, 11,951 bytes. No source files touched. Verified: TERMS AND CONDITIONS and the APPENDIX are both present, and the copyright line is preserved verbatim from the previous file.
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What
GitHub reports
NOASSERTIONfor this repo. The license is not missing — theLICENSEfile exists. It is the 750-byte short-form notice that references the Apache License without including it. GitHub Licensee matches the full ~11KB text, so a short notice reads as undetected.This is legally thin as well as machine-unreadable. The short notice states the grant but none of the terms that carry it: no express patent license, no contributor-licensing-in, no redistribution conditions, no warranty disclaimer.
Replaced with the canonical 202-line Apache-2.0 text plus the same copyright notice, 11,951 bytes. No source files touched.
Why this matters beyond the badge
A repo that cannot be license-detected is invisible to automated dependency tooling.
npm,crates.io, PyPI, and most security scanners read the SPDX identifier before they read anything else.NOASSERTIONmeans an outside agent deciding whether to depend on this gets no answer, and defaults to "not safe to use."That is a distribution blocker, not a cosmetic one, and it affects the reference port of the whole polyformalism fleet.
Verification
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION— presentAPPENDIX: How to apply the Apache License— presentCopyright 2026 CellFlow Contributors)LICENSEin the diffNote for the other repos
A sibling scan found the same short-notice pattern in 4 repos (
quilt,quilt-chere, plusquilt-swarmandquilt-fleeton non-default branches which already carry near-full text). 17 others have noLICENSEfile at all and need a legal choice, not a text fix. Full breakdown inquilt-research-canons.