docs(license): split the data carve-out into NOTICE

The carve-out was 180 words appended to LICENSE, which pushes the file below the similarity threshold licence detectors match against — a repository whose licence reads "other" is less inviting to a forker than one that reads MIT, and the carve-out was never part of MIT's text anyway. LICENSE is verbatim MIT again, plus three lines binding NOTICE into the terms so the carve-out travels with any copy rather than being optional reading. NOTICE carries the substance. README points at both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-17 22:33:29 +02:00
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@@ -20,24 +20,6 @@ LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.

---
-
-What the license above covers, and what it does not:
-
-The MIT license applies to the code in this repository — the server, the client,
-the parsers, the build and refresh scripts, and the documentation written for
-them. That is the part which is mine to license.
-
-It does not apply to the event data. The schedules, event names and event
-descriptions under `fixtures/` and `snapshots/`, and the feed built from them,
-were compiled by the editors of the sites they were fetched from — Game8,
-wiki.gg and the Arknights Wiki among them — and describe events run by the
-games' publishers. That material is not mine and is not relicensed here. It is
-checked in so the parsers can be tested against real pages, and it remains
-subject to whatever terms those sites and publishers set. If you reuse this
-project, the data is yours to obtain and attribute, not to inherit from me.
-
-Game names, event names, artwork and trademarks belong to their respective
-owners, including HoYoverse, Kuro Games, Hypergryph, Hotta Studio, Infold Games
-and Perfect World. This project is an unofficial fan-made tool, not endorsed by
-or affiliated with any of them or with any of the sources it reads.
+The accompanying NOTICE file forms part of these terms and must be distributed
+with the above copyright notice. It states which material in this repository is
+licensed here and which is not.
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+NOTICE
+======
+
+This file records what the MIT licence in LICENSE covers, and what it cannot.
+It is part of the licensing terms of this repository: keep it with the code, and
+keep it with any copy or substantial portion of the code you distribute.
+
+The code is MIT
+---------------
+
+The MIT licence applies to the code in this repository — the server, the client,
+the parsers, the build and refresh scripts, and the documentation written for
+them. That is the part which is mine to license.
+
+The event data is not
+---------------------
+
+The MIT licence does not apply to the event data. The schedules, event names and
+event descriptions under `fixtures/` and `snapshots/`, and the feed built from
+them, were compiled by the editors of the sites they were fetched from — Game8,
+wiki.gg and the Arknights Wiki among them — and describe events run by the
+games' publishers. That material is not mine and is not relicensed here. It is
+checked in so the parsers can be tested against real pages, and it remains
+subject to whatever terms those sites and publishers set.
+
+If you fork this project, the data is yours to obtain and attribute, not to
+inherit from me. Every event in the app links back to the page it came from.
+
+Names and trademarks
+--------------------
+
+Game names, event names, artwork and trademarks belong to their respective
+owners, including HoYoverse, Kuro Games, Hypergryph, Hotta Studio, Infold Games
+and Perfect World. This project is an unofficial fan-made tool, not endorsed by
+or affiliated with any of them or with any of the sources it reads.
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ scripts.
 It does not cover the event data. The schedules under `fixtures/` and `snapshots/`, and the feed
 built from them, were compiled by the editors of the sites they came from and describe events run by
 the publishers; every event links back to the page it came from. Fork the code freely — the data you
-obtain and attribute yourself. The scope note at the foot of `LICENSE` spells this out, and the app's
-own colophon says the same thing to readers.
+obtain and attribute yourself. [NOTICE](NOTICE) spells this out and travels with the licence, and the
+app's own colophon says the same thing to readers.

 Unofficial and unaffiliated. Game names, event names and trademarks belong to their respective
 owners.