Convert root LICENSE to a symlink -> LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt

Convert root `LICENSE` to a symlink

The org standard for the DecentraLicense is that the real license text lives once at LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt (SPDX REUSE naming, matching the SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-DCL-1.0 headers used throughout the source), and the root LICENSE is a symlink to it. This keeps things DRY — no duplicated license text to drift.

This repo currently has a real root LICENSE file that duplicates the full DCL text (~17.9 KB) already present at LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt.

Fix

rm LICENSE && ln -s LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt LICENSE && git add LICENSE

Keep it as a symlink (git mode 120000).

Why

Precedent: established for the org by fix: replace LICENSE symlink with real DCL-1.0 file (unblocks consumer deploys) rainix#232.
A broken or duplicated LICENSE can also trip GitHub's action-staging for composite-action consumers, so the symlink form is the safe convention.

Closing as filed in error.

The repo-root LICENSE here is already a correct git symlink (mode 120000) pointing to LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt, and has been for months. This issue asked to convert LICENSE into that symlink — but the conversion was already in place, so there is nothing to do.

This was one of a batch of identical issues mistakenly filed across the org by over-generalizing a single repo's (rainix) genuine dangling-symlink bug without verifying each repo's actual state. Apologies for the noise.

Verified via the git tree mode + resolved symlink target on the default branch.

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Convert root LICENSE to a symlink -> LICENSES/LicenseRef-DCL-1.0.txt #26