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Removed 12 emoji. Where one sat in a heading its GitHub anchor changed, so the table-of-contents links were rewritten to match. Emoji inside fenced code blocks were left alone, and arrows became ASCII rather than being deleted.

The banner advertised a permissive licence (Apache-2.0 or MIT) while LICENSE and pyproject are both AGPL-3.0-or-later. Corrected, and the pill resized to match.

The banner's version pill was stale; now v0.4.0.

Part of a portfolio-wide README pass. Docs and brand assets only; no code changes.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01JCHonvsPUtGtfsgsnLwPKQ

RFingAdam and others added 3 commits August 22, 2026 20:49
The licence file covers everything in the repository, logo included, and
says nothing about names. Added a short section stating that the project
name and the logo files are outside it, wording modelled on Apache 2.0
section 6.

Where the repository is named after someone else's product, it now also
carries the nominative-use disclaimer that copper-mountain-vna-mcp already
had: no affiliation or endorsement, and the name used only to identify the
software or instrument the project talks to.
These projects stay AGPL-3.0-or-later. What is removed is the standing
offer of a separate paid licence: the README section, COMMERCIAL.md, and
the matching section in eng-mcp-suite's LICENSE_SUMMARY.md.

Dual licensing only works if the offer can actually be honoured for the
whole work, and that is not uniformly true here. mcp-blender ships a real
Blender add-on: 43 files importing bpy, with a bl_info marker. Blender's
position is that add-ons using that API are derivative works and must stay
GPL, so a proprietary licence over that half was never the Maintainer's to
grant. Advertising it portfolio-wide implied otherwise.

Selling a licence also weakens nominative use of the vendor names several
of these repos carry, which is a worse trade than the offer was worth.

CLA.md stays. There are no third-party contributors today, so the
Maintainer remains sole copyright holder and can still relicense privately
if that ever becomes worth doing. The CLA is what keeps that possible once
someone else does contribute. Its wording no longer points at a paid
licence as the reason.
Removed 12 emoji. Where one sat in a heading its GitHub anchor changed, so the table-of-contents links were rewritten to match. Emoji inside fenced code blocks were left alone, and arrows became ASCII rather than being deleted.

The banner advertised a permissive licence (Apache-2.0 or MIT) while LICENSE and pyproject are both AGPL-3.0-or-later. Corrected, and the pill resized to match.

The banner's version pill was stale; now v0.4.0.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JCHonvsPUtGtfsgsnLwPKQ
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