License hygiene: canonical BSD-3-Clause LICENSE (GitHub-detectable) + NOTICE.md#44
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…le) + NOTICE.md The LICENSE appended "Heritage & bundled components" and "Trademarks" sections after the BSD-3 text, dropping GitHub's license classifier below its match threshold — the repo showed "no license" despite the open-source topic and the SPDX headers throughout the tree. Make LICENSE the canonical BSD-3-Clause template only (now detectable), and move the removed heritage/bundled-components note to NOTICE.md. The trademark policy already lives in TRADEMARKS.md (unchanged); LICENSE grants copyright rights only. No code change; no version bump. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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GitHub's license classifier reported no license for TigerCore even though
LICENSEcontained BSD-3-Clause text — because the file appended "Heritage & bundled components" and "Trademarks" prose after the standard text, dropping the match confidence below threshold. So the repo sidebar + API said "no license," which reads as all rights reserved and contradicts theopen-sourcetopic.What
LICENSE→ the canonical BSD-3-Clause template only, so GitHub badges it BSD-3-Clause.NOTICE.md(new) → the preserved heritage note (TigerZF / Zend Framework 1) + bundled third-party components (Bootstrap, GrapesJS, CodeMirror, jQuery, DataTables, Font Awesome, Parsedown).TRADEMARKS.md— unchanged; still holds the trademark policy. LICENSE grants copyright rights only, never the marks.No code change, no version bump (license/notice files only). Sibling repos (Tiger, TigerDocs) got the same treatment via direct commits.
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