The license gate now proves itself before running: a --selftest mode
plants an unlicensed vendored file and asserts the structural layer
detects it, so a silently broken gate can no longer pass. The
byte-identity provenance audit gains exit-code semantics (any verdict
outside the accepted set fails) and runs as a blocking step in the
security workflow for both dry runs and releases.
Structural layer: drop the hardcoded component list — any directory
containing vendored source or data files must now be covered by a
license file in itself or an ancestor within the vendored tree, so
newly vendored code without a license fails immediately. New third
layer: the graph-UI npm production tree is resolved (postinstall
scripts disabled) and every bundled package must be on the policy
allow-list; unknown licenses fail. Reclassifies @tailwindcss/vite as a
devDependency — it is a build plugin and was inflating the production
tree with native tooling.
Release archives now carry THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, generated by
scripts/gen-third-party-notices.sh from THIRD_PARTY.md, the grammar
manifest, and the per-component license texts; the Homebrew formula
and AUR PKGBUILD install it alongside the binary. The SBOM gains
per-component license metadata, corrected versions, and the previously
missing vendored libraries. The security workflow gains a
vendored-license scan with an explicit allow-list policy, and the
release workflow exposes a skip_perf input for releases that do not
touch pipeline logic.
Martin Vogel