diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 8e08da5..ec9bc1b 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -19,17 +19,3 @@ AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.
-
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-
-ATTRIBUTION
-
-wijzer reaches format and behavior parity with OpenWiki
-(https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki, MIT License, Copyright (c)
-LangChain, Inc.). The wiki output format, the `.last-update.json` state schema,
-the update no-op / churn-prevention algorithm, the content-snapshot approach,
-the prompt disciplines, and the structure of the test suite are adapted from
-that project. wijzer is an independent reimplementation as a Claude Code plugin
-and ships none of OpenWiki's source; it carries this notice in gratitude and to
-document lineage. The upstream commit validated against is recorded in
-PARITY.md.
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e1dfb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+wijzer — NOTICE
+
+This product includes work adapted from OpenWiki.
+
+wijzer reaches format and behavior parity with OpenWiki
+(https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki, MIT License, Copyright (c)
+LangChain, Inc.). The wiki output format, the `.last-update.json` state schema,
+the update no-op / churn-prevention algorithm, the content-snapshot approach,
+the prompt disciplines, and the structure of the test suite are adapted from
+that project. wijzer is an independent reimplementation as a Claude Code plugin
+and ships none of OpenWiki's source; it carries this notice in gratitude and to
+document lineage. The upstream commit validated against is recorded in
+PARITY.md.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e607fe..639c6b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,4 +98,4 @@ re-validation procedure in [PARITY.md](PARITY.md)).
 MIT. wijzer is an independent reimplementation and ships none of OpenWiki's
 source; the wiki format, state schema, update algorithm, prompt disciplines, and
 test structure are adapted from OpenWiki (MIT, © LangChain, Inc.) — see the
-attribution in [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+attribution in [NOTICE](NOTICE).