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Name the copyright holder the licence requires attributing - #13

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CC BY-SA 4.0 requires attribution, and the licence named nobody to attribute. The legal code was
complete but carried no Copyright (c) <holder> line at all, so a reuser following the terms had no
holder to credit, and an assessor asking who owns the Foundation's health-reasoning content found no
answer in the repository. README.md had no licence section either.

  • LICENSE — a three-line notice above the Creative Commons legal code, which is left
    byte-for-byte unaltered: 5 lines added, 0 modified, 0 removed. GitHub detects a licence by matching
    that text, so leaving it untouched is what keeps CC-BY-SA-4.0 detected.
  • README.md — a closing ## License section naming the holder and what the licence permits,
    including commercially, and noting that it is a content licence rather than a software one because
    that is what this repository holds.

scripts/validate-vault.sh passes (no findings across 36 nodes). Neither addition uses the word this
repo forbids outside a frozen ## Reasoning body.

Verify after merge

gh api repos/tinytars/reasoning/license --jq .license.spdx_id   # expect CC-BY-SA-4.0

If that changes or goes null, the LICENSE half reverts and the README section stays — the notice
exists so a reuser can find the holder, and the README serves that on its own.

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CC BY-SA 4.0 requires attribution, and the licence text named nobody to attribute — so a
reuser following the terms had no holder to credit and an ownership assessment had no
answer. The notice goes above the legal code, which stays byte-for-byte unaltered so
GitHub's licence detection still matches it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Rodriguez <contact@promontory.studio>
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