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@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ Report vulnerabilities per link:SECURITY.md[`SECURITY.md`].
 * *Code* — link:LICENSE[MPL-2.0] (Mozilla Public License 2.0) — the license published to npm and detected by GitHub.
 * *Documentation* — MPL-2.0 today (the repository's REUSE config tags every file MPL-2.0); a *CC-BY-SA-4.0* split for prose is the intended model, with the docs-licence rollout tracked as a follow-up.
 
-This project *does not* use AGPL; any AGPL string remaining in a build manifest is a packaging regression, not the project's license.
-
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 [[contributing--links]]