public-readiness: scrub internal details, split licensing, hosted kernel-build

Preparing the repo to go public (ADR-0007):

- CI: kernel-build moves from the self-hosted runner to ubuntu-latest
  (installs its own cross toolchain + qemu, caches the pristine tarball).
  On a public repo a registered self-hosted runner is reachable from
  approved fork-PR workflows — i.e. arbitrary code on private
  infrastructure — and the build never actually needed the SDK host.
  ADR-0004 marked superseded-in-part; docs/ci-cd.md rewritten (site
  specifics now live only in the private deployment log).
- Licensing: LICENSE gains the GPL-2.0 carve-out for patches/ and the
  kernel source excerpts (Linux derivatives; per-driver provenance was
  already tracked in PROVENANCE.md); patches/README.md states it too.
- Scrubbed from the tip: bench-unit dev credentials and its gadget IP
  (m2-boot notes), the site AP SSID+BSSID and a neighboring AP's BSSID
  and the device WLAN MAC (wifi bring-up evidence — BSSIDs are
  geolocatable), the runner mesh IP. NOTE: these remain in git history;
  decision on a pre-publication history rewrite is separate.
- Emoji cleanup across 21 tracked files (kernel port docs, review report,
  enforce-mcdc.sh) per repo text conventions: status marks became
  [x]/[wip]/[ ]/OK plain text.
- "[maintainer]-gated" process phrasing normalized to "maintainer-gated"
  (attributions in dated evidence docs kept).

Verified: zero emojis tracked; scrub grep clean; patches carry no internal
references; ci.yml parses; shellcheck unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K

kernel/rv1106-enablement/npu/PORT-PLAN.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ target as the rest of this port: **Linux 6.18.46 vanilla**
 (`flare-edge/research/linux-6.18.46/`), forward-ported from vendor 5.10.160, built
 with our `arm-rockchip830-...-gcc 8.3` toolchain — see `../PORT-STATUS.md` and
 `../../docs/bringup.md` for the method and milestones this slots into (M6, listed
-in `../DRIVER-PARITY.md` as "NPU (rknpu, ff660000) | out-of-tree | ⬜ M6").
+in `../DRIVER-PARITY.md` as "NPU (rknpu, ff660000) | out-of-tree | [ ] M6").
 
 Builds on `warden-sdk/docs/npu-graphics-feasibility.md`, which already read this
 same driver source to answer a narrower question (can the NPU do graphics — no).

kernel/rv1106-enablement/npu/PORT-PROGRESS.md

@@ -331,6 +331,6 @@ the value of checking the decoded string, not just the ioctl return code.
 
 ## Also updated this session
 
-`../DRIVER-PARITY.md`'s NPU row: `⬜ M6 — plan: npu/PORT-PLAN.md` -> `🔨 M6 built,
+`../DRIVER-PARITY.md`'s NPU row: `[ ] M6 — plan: npu/PORT-PLAN.md` -> `[wip] M6 built,
 0 errors/0 warnings, 99 rknpu-prefixed symbols in System.map, &npu
 {status="okay"} in the dtb — not yet flashed/probed on hardware`.

kernel/rv1106-enablement/npu/VERIFIED.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# NPU (rknpu) open kernel driver — ✅ VERIFIED on warden-c8a3 (2026-08-25)
+# NPU (rknpu) open kernel driver — VERIFIED on warden-c8a3 (2026-08-25)
 
 The open GPL rknpu kernel driver runs on our self-built Linux 6.18.46. This is the
 achievable open end state (Tier A in `OPEN-NPU-PLAN.md`); open *compute* remains a