Clean LICENSE.txt to verbatim PSF-2.0; move CCP attribution to NOTICE.md#16
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The previous LICENSE.txt was the PSF-2.0 license with "Python Software Foundation"/"PSF" → "CCP Games"/"CCP" and "Python" → "CARBON.IO" substituted throughout. This made downstream license-detection tools (GitHub's licensee gem, anything that matches SPDX templates) unable to classify the repo — they look for the unmodified PSF-2.0 text. This change follows the Apache pattern: - LICENSE.txt is now the verbatim SPDX PSF-2.0 template (Python/PSF references intact, including the canonical 2001-2006 copyright years from the SPDX template — those are part of what tools match against, not a substantive claim). - NOTICE.md carries the CCP attribution and makes explicit that CARBON.IO is a derivative work distributed by CCP Games on the same PSF-2.0 terms, with CCP Games as licensor in place of PSF and CARBON.IO as the licensed work in place of Python. No modification to the license terms themselves. - README.md license section now points readers at NOTICE.md alongside LICENSE.txt. Substance of the licence terms (grant, retention, derivative-work summary, AS-IS, liability, termination, agency, deemed acceptance) is unchanged from the previous LICENSE.txt; what's changed is where the attribution / parties lives, so the license text itself is machine-classifiable. Legal has signed off on this approach. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What is and isn't changing
Legal has signed off on this approach (subject to the wording not materially changing and being clear to readers what licence is covering what bits).
Note on GitHub's sidebar
PSF-2.0 is not currently in choosealicense.com/_licenses, which is the corpus GitHub's `licensee` gem uses for detection. So even after this PR merges, the GitHub repo page will still show "Other" until choosealicense adds PSF-2.0. The clean LICENSE.txt is still worth having for SPDX-aware tooling, future detector improvements, and basic license hygiene.
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