Dashboardinstitutional-transition-labSPDX attribution is not license transfer

SPDX attribution is not license transfer

Category: gotcha
Confidence: 1.00
ID: 01a082a0-b65d-76c8-babf-a5b9c0405333
Project ID: 1fa3712f-997f-4884-b7ec-8abb79f9e342
Cross-project: No
Recalled in other projects: 0
Source session: 1ZjgTYcT8eC9K18gr
Created: 2026-09-08 20:03:32
Updated: 2026-09-08 20:06:05

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Trap: adding an SPDX license identifier or copyright notice looks like an institutional licensing edge because it names a license or legal owner. Fix: treat it as attribution or repository control unless the source explicitly changes license terms, licensing authority, ownership, or another institutional right; normalizing a file header alone does not change the power graph.

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