[SizzleUnrlsd]

Replaces #244.

Summary

NOTICE read "Copyright 2026 Hugo Payet":

• The year: 2026 is the year NOTICE was added, with the move to Apache-2.0 (bb89395). This repository's first commit dates from 17 April 2025.
• The authors: it named Hugo Payet alone. Two contributors listed in AUTHORS.md, Arthur Mazeau and @shookapic, wrote code that is still here.
• The license header: below these lines, it carried the license header meant for source files. Its "you may not use this file except in compliance with the License" then applied to NOTICE itself.

Change

NOTICE now holds only its attribution notices:

coretrace-compiler
Copyright 2025-2026 Hugo Payet and the CoreTrace contributors
https://github.com/CoreTrace/coretrace-compiler

• The repository's URL: Apache-2.0, section 4(d), requires derivative works to carry a readable copy of the attribution notices in NOTICE, so every copy that follows the license points back here.
• The license header is gone: the license text is in LICENSE. The Apache Software Foundation's guide to LICENSE and NOTICE files asks: "Do not add anything to NOTICE which is not legally required."
• CHANGELOG.md lists the change under Unreleased, in a Documentation section.

Earlier contributions

Arthur Mazeau contributed on 18 April 2025, while this repository was under GPL-3.0. It moved to Apache-2.0 in March 2026 (bb89395). In CoreTrace/coretrace#171, his comment of 13 October 2026 reads:

I, Arthur Mazeau, agree that my contributions to CoreTrace/coretrace, CoreTrace/coretrace-compiler and CoreTrace/coretrace-stack-analyzer made before their change to the Apache License 2.0 are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

NOTICE does not mention this agreement.

Differences from #244

• Commits kept: the first two commits of docs(notice): date the copyright from 2025 and credit the contributors #244 are taken unchanged.
• The commit that credits the contributors has the same diff with a new message. It names the second contributor by their GitHub handle, as AUTHORS.md does, and makes no statement about the license of earlier contributions.
• New commit: it removes the license header.
• The CHANGELOG entry also mentions the removal of the header, and cites this pull request.

Verification

• Nothing in this repository reads NOTICE. CoreTrace/coretrace installs it with the compiler, and its test ctrace_install_ships_third_party_licenses only checks that it is not empty.
• scripts/check-license-compliance.sh passes. It does not check NOTICE.
• The commit messages pass scripts/ci/commit_checker.py.
• CI at 8d982e0:
  • LLVM versions run 42394217847 passes 15/15.
  • Build run 42394217882 passes; its Docker job is skipped, as on every pull request.
  • clang-format, license-compliance and the commit conventions pass.