governance(licence): LICENSE has no SPDX-License-Identifier header → "Licence consistency" check red #282
Description
Finding
The governance / Licence consistency check fails with:
[ERROR] LICENSE file has no 'SPDX-License-Identifier:' header
observed red on recent PR CI runs (e.g. #242, #279, which the owner merged through it). LICENSE is the verbatim MPL-2.0 text — it begins Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 with no SPDX comment line.
Assessment
Pre-existing and recurring on every PR; independent of any docs change. This is a governance-config call, the same category as #268–#272.
Disposition (owner governance decision — not auto-applied)
Either:
- (a) prepend an
SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0comment line toLICENSE; or - (b) exempt the
LICENSEfile itself from the SPDX-header requirement (the LICENSE file is the licence text).
Editing the canonical legal text is a deliberate owner action, so this is left as a decision rather than a unilateral fix.
Filed at owner request to capture remaining work on the master scheduler.
Activity
hyperpolymath commentedon Sep 30, 2026
RULING D182 (2026-09-30T14:22Z) · scope: repo · basis: applied-unless-struck (D113; owner approved the full table, none struck)
Exempt LICENSE from the SPDX-header rule (licence texts must stay verbatim).
surface: metadatastician/standards#787 (comment)
The open question in this issue is answered by the ruling above; future agents should act on it rather than re-ask.
hyperpolymath commentedon Nov 6, 2026
Resolved by #360, merged as
007d749ec02b3836b45a2183ebbbaf72935c9d91.LICENSEalready contains a matching MPL-2.0 SPDX header and legal body. No licence text was altered. The merged-main licence-consistency check passed: https://github.com/hyperpolymath/echo-types/actions/runs/42235360248. The independent prose-licence scope remains explicitly documented.