docs(license): align copyright and trademark text with the LF series

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ Format: [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/). Spec versions follow `MAJOR.
 - **Generators write LF on every platform.** `gen_number_spelling.py` and the
   anchor-inclusion generator opened their output in text mode, so a Windows run wrote
   CRLF and the byte-for-byte regeneration check failed.
+- **License and trademark text names the LF series.** `LICENSE`, `NOTICE` and both site
+  footers read "The TRACE Specification Authors" as the copyright line. The separate
+  patent promise section is removed from `LICENSE`; the patent grants in the Community
+  Specification License 1.0 and Apache License 2.0 are unchanged. `CHARTER.md` section 5
+  now says the TRACE name and the "TRACE-conformant" mark are held by LF Projects, LLC.
 - **BREAKING:** Successful `provenance.verify_record()` calls previously returned
   `None`; they now return `RevocationCheck` (#279). Callers can distinguish
   `no_check_performed` when no revocation store is supplied from `verified` when

CHARTER.md

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Normative specification text and the normative TRACE JSON Schema are licensed un
 
 ## 5. Trademark Policy
 
-"TRACE" as a specification name and the "TRACE-conformant" conformance mark are currently held by OPAQUE Systems, Inc. Upon host organization acceptance, trademark ownership transfers to the host under their standard trademark policy.
+"TRACE" as a specification name and the "TRACE-conformant" conformance mark are held by LF Projects, LLC, under the trademark policy at https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/.
 
 Use of "TRACE-conformant" to describe an implementation is permitted only when that implementation passes the published conformance test suite for the version being claimed.
 

LICENSE

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Source code, SDK code, test code, examples, workflows, and sample or
 reference code are made available under Apache License 2.0 unless a file
 states otherwise. This covers src/, tests/, examples/, and .github/.
 
-Copyright 2026 OPAQUE Systems, Inc. and the TRACE Specification contributors.
+Copyright 2026 The TRACE Specification Authors.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use these files except in compliance with the License.
@@ -64,14 +64,4 @@ Portions of spec/trace-v0.1.md carried forward into later specification
 versions remain available under CC BY 4.0. Where both licenses apply to the
 same text, a recipient may rely on either.
 
-PATENT PROMISE
-==============
-OPAQUE Systems, Inc. grants a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive
-license under any patent claims it controls that are necessarily infringed
-by a conforming implementation of this specification, for the purpose of
-implementing or operating a product that conforms to this specification.
-This promise applies to v0.1 and all subsequent versions of TRACE. It is
-made in addition to, and does not narrow, patent rights granted under the
-Community Specification License or the Apache License, Version 2.0.
-
 For a concise file-by-file license map, see Governance/License.md.

NOTICE

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 TRACE
-Copyright 2026 AgenTrust Authors
+Copyright 2026 The TRACE Specification Authors
 
 This product includes software developed by the AgenTrust project
 (https://github.com/agentrust-io/trace-spec).

conformance/mkdocs.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ repo_url: https://github.com/agentrust-io/trace-spec
 repo_name: agentrust-io/trace-spec
 edit_uri: edit/main/conformance/
 docs_dir: .
-copyright: "© 2026 AgenTrust contributors. Apache 2.0"
+copyright: "© 2026 The TRACE Specification Authors. Apache 2.0"
 
 exclude_docs: |
   .github/

mkdocs.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ repo_url: https://github.com/agentrust-io/trace-spec
 repo_name: agentrust-io/trace-spec
 edit_uri: edit/main/
 docs_dir: .
-copyright: "© 2026 TRACE Specification contributors. Specification: Community Specification License 1.0. Code: Apache 2.0. Other documentation: CC BY 4.0."
+copyright: "© 2026 The TRACE Specification Authors. Specification: Community Specification License 1.0. Code: Apache 2.0. Other documentation: CC BY 4.0."
 
 exclude_docs: |
   .github/