add license file

[cassandrabailey293]

adds BSD-3 license. i used the one from DSP but added "BSD-3-Clause-Clear" for SPDX identifier per legal team's instructions.

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

The LICENSE content diverges from canonical SPDX expectations (identifier formatting and text fidelity), which can break automated license detection and create compliance ambiguity.

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Pull request overview

Adds a top-level LICENSE file to the repository to document the project’s licensing (Clear BSD / BSD-3-Clause-Clear), aligning the repo with distribution and compliance expectations.

Changes:

• Introduces a new LICENSE file containing the Clear BSD license text.
• Adds an SPDX license identifier line to support automated tooling.

File summaries

File	Description
LICENSE	Adds Clear BSD license text and an SPDX identifier line for license detection/compliance.

Review details

Suppressed comments (2)

LICENSE:19

• The final sentence is missing terminal punctuation; the canonical license text ends with a period after "DAMAGE".

ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE

LICENSE:8

• The Clear BSD (BSD-3-Clause-Clear) license text is typically expected to match the canonical SPDX template verbatim for reliable license detection and to avoid introducing unintended legal wording. The added parenthetical and line break here make the text diverge from the standard form; consider reverting this sentence to the canonical wording.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted (subject to the limitations in the disclaimer below)
provided that the following conditions are met:

• Files reviewed: 1/1 changed files
• Comments generated: 1
• Review effort level: Lite

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[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

The LICENSE text deviates from the canonical Clear BSD wording (formatting and punctuation), which should be corrected to avoid ambiguity and tooling mis-detection.

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Review details

Suppressed comments (1)

Previously missed (1) — in code that hasn't changed since the last review.

LICENSE:19

• The standard Clear BSD license text ends the final sentence with a period; it's currently missing, which alters the canonical license wording.

• Files reviewed: 1/1 changed files
• Comments generated: 1
• Review effort level: Lite

[damonbanks]

GTG