[ronniegeraghty]

Summary

Replace Copyright (c) 2026 GitHub, Inc. with Copyright GitHub, Inc. in the root LICENSE, as requested in github/open-source-releases#743 and Jeffrey's reviewer comment.

Every other byte of the license is unchanged. No source, generated distribution, dependency, workflow, or repository-governance changes are included. No existing open PR modifies LICENSE.

Verification

• Model-free checks and source-to-bundle verification pass.

• Native integration evidence is distinguished from synthetic controls.

• Credential, process and artifact boundaries were reviewed.

• Documentation and packaged dist match source.

• Exact byte comparison against the parent commit's LICENSE: passed; only the requested copyright substitution is present.

• git diff --check: passed.

• pnpm exec vitest run tests/policy.test.ts tests/native.test.ts: passed, 28 tests.

• pnpm check: passed with Node 24.21.0 and pnpm 12.8.1; type checking, lint, all 165 model-free tests with coverage, deterministic source-to-bundle verification, and all six packaged controls passed.

Dependencies were restored with pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts. Validation used host-native Windows ARM64 tooling and canonical Windows temporary paths after initial environment-related failures. Native CLI controls use the built-in mock executor and deterministic graders; the remaining synthetic controls do not establish hosted GitHub integration. No models or live credentials were used for evaluation. Source and dist are unchanged.

Limitations

No new integration acceptance is introduced by this license-only change. Hosted CI results remain separate from local validation; no live-model workflow was dispatched. The existing Copilot E2E path filter excludes LICENSE.

Existing upstream dependency-license gaps remain unchanged; passing packaging checks does not clear those release gates. The one-reviewer ruleset is already in place per the release owner's confirmation and is outside this PR's scope. This PR does not close or modify the OSPO review or release tracker.

[Copilot]

🟢 Approval recommended

No active review issues are identified, and the change is limited to the requested copyright-notice wording in the LICENSE file.

No open issues 🎉

What changed in this PR

Updates the root MIT license copyright notice to the wording requested for OSPO review. No other license content or repository files are changed.

Changes:

• Replaces Copyright (c) 2026 GitHub, Inc. with Copyright GitHub, Inc..
• Leaves the remainder of the license unchanged.

File	Description
LICENSE	Updates the copyright notice wording in the root MIT license.

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