# LICENSE Review (LAT-27)

**Reviewer:** agent:claude-opus-4
**Date:** 2026-02-16
**File:** `LICENSE`
**Verdict: LGTM**

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## Findings

### 1. MIT License Text Correctness

The license body is a verbatim match of the canonical MIT License as published by the Open Source Initiative. All three clauses are present and unmodified:

- **Grant clause** ("Permission is hereby granted...") -- complete, includes all eight enumerated rights (use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, sell) and the "subject to the following conditions" transition. Correct.
- **Condition clause** ("The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.") -- present, unmodified. Correct.
- **Disclaimer clause** ("THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS'...") -- full all-caps warranty disclaimer including EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT, and the LIABILITY limitation. Correct.

No words added, removed, or substituted relative to the standard text. No clause reordering.

### 2. Copyright Line

```
Copyright (c) 2026 Stage 11 Agentics Corporation
```

- Format follows the standard `Copyright (c) <year> <holder>` convention. Correct.
- Year is 2026. Correct per requirements.
- Copyright holder is "Stage 11 Agentics Corporation". Matches the legal entity name.
- Uses ASCII `(c)` rather than the Unicode copyright symbol. This is the most common convention for plain-text license files and is legally equivalent. No issue.

### 3. File Formatting and Encoding

- **Encoding:** ASCII text (verified via `file` command). Clean -- no BOM, no non-ASCII bytes.
- **Line endings:** Unix-style LF (`0x0a`). No carriage returns. Consistent throughout.
- **Trailing whitespace:** None. Every line ends cleanly at `$` with no trailing spaces or tabs (verified via `cat -e`).
- **Final newline:** File ends with a newline character after "SOFTWARE." (confirmed via hex dump). Correct POSIX behavior.
- **File size:** 1,085 bytes. Consistent with standard MIT License text plus the copyright line.

### 4. Structure

The file follows the conventional layout:

1. Title line ("MIT License")
2. Blank line
3. Copyright line
4. Blank line
5. License body (three paragraphs separated by blank lines)

This matches what GitHub, npm, and other ecosystems expect for automatic license detection (e.g., GitHub's Licensee library).

## Summary

No issues found. The LICENSE file contains an exact, unmodified copy of the MIT License with the correct copyright holder and year. File encoding and formatting are clean.
