chore(license): standardize to MIT OR AGPL-3.0-or-later

Jonathan D.A. Jewell · claude · Jonathan D.A. Jewell · commit 4c90abc092c5 · 2025-12-15T22:15:06.000Z
Dual license: MIT OR AGPL-3.0-or-later (your choice) Includes Palimpsest philosophical overlay (encouraged, not required) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,26 +1,19 @@
-SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Palimpsest-0.5
+SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT OR AGPL-3.0-or-later
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024-2025 hyperpolymath
 
-This software is dual-licensed under:
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-  2. Palimpsest License v0.5
-
-See https://spdx.org/licenses/ for license details.
+================================================================================
+DUAL LICENSE: MIT OR AGPL-3.0-or-later
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