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docs: license the greenfield templates under MIT-0 - #114

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The greenfield templates, and the text the implement recipe copies from them into a target repository, are now licensed MIT-0. Copied text no longer brings the root GFDL 1.3 (a copyleft) into private or enterprise repositories. The owner's decision follows v0.3.6 (#113).

What changed

  • LICENSE-TEMPLATES: the MIT-0 text.
  • docs/reference/licensing.md: a Templates row (greenfield/templates/ and text copied from it, MIT-0), the licence file and SPDX list, and why.
  • establish-docs-contract: the style guide, ADR template and ADR policy are adapted from the greenfield copies, never from docs/. The DOC-05 row names the three permissive licences of the prose check copy.
  • dev/build_skills.py: the implement bundle carries the greenfield ADR policy and template (same bundle paths).
  • implement/AGENTS.md, implement/playbooks/README.md, greenfield/README.md: the rule and a short note.

How it was checked

  • make check, make security, make docs-lint, make coverage: passed.
  • Git shows one author for greenfield/templates/, so the relicensing needs no other contributor's consent (checked with git log).

What was not done

  • No legal review. Counsel should confirm the licence choices before enterprise adoption.

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Text the implement recipe copies into a target (the style guide sections,
the AGENTS.md section, the ADR policy and template) carried no stated
licence, so it fell under the root GFDL 1.3, a copyleft that enterprise
reviews flag. greenfield/templates/ is now MIT-0 (LICENSE-TEMPLATES): a copy
needs no notice, and the repository owns it.

establish-docs-contract now copies and adapts from the greenfield templates
only, never from docs/, and the implement skill bundle carries the greenfield
ADR policy and template. The DOC-05 row names the three permissive licences
of the prose check copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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