docs: correct licence and ownership claims in NOTICE and AGENTS.md

- stop asserting US public-domain status for the derived FAA CSV; section 105 covers the
  government's own work, not this repository's derivative
- name no licence instrument for Transport Canada, which does not publish one on the
  download page, rather than citing one that cannot be verified
- state that MIT covers code only, resolving a contradiction with AGENTS.md
- lead the source-eligibility rule with the bilateral-permission bar; Taiwan is OGDL
  licensed and excluded for that reason, not for commercial terms

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@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ OpenAirframes — Data Source Notices
The LICENSE file covers the *code* in this repository. It does not cover the
*data* published in releases. Several upstream registries permit redistribution
only on condition that specific notices travel with the data. Those conditions
are reproduced below and must ship alongside any redistributed release asset.
are reproduced below. This file is published as an asset on every release; anyone
redistributing a release asset further must carry the corresponding notice with it.
Removing or altering a notice in this file removes the permission that makes the
corresponding asset redistributable.
@@ -15,8 +16,10 @@ Transport Canada — Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (CCARCS)
Asset: openairframes_tc_*.csv
Source: https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/ccarcs-riacc/download/ccarcsdb.zip
The Government of Canada open licence requires both of the following notices,
verbatim, and requires that they reach the consumer together:
Redistribution is permitted under the Government of Canada terms recorded for this
dataset. They require both of the following notices, verbatim, and require that the
two reach the consumer together. The governing instrument is not published on the
CCARCS download page, so no licence name or URL is asserted here.
Reproduced and distributed with the permission of the Government of Canada.
@@ -32,12 +35,16 @@ code, care-of) are dropped during ingestion and are not redistributed.
FAA — Releasable Aircraft Database
-----------------------------------
Asset: openairframes_faa_*.csv, ReleasableAircraft_*.zip
Source: https://registry.faa.gov/database/ReleasableAircraft.zip
A work of the United States federal government, not subject to copyright
protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105). No notice is required; the
source is credited here for provenance.
ReleasableAircraft_*.zip is redistributed unmodified. It is a work of the United
States federal government, not subject to copyright protection in the United
States (17 U.S.C. § 105). No notice is required; it is credited for provenance.
openairframes_faa_*.csv is a derived product built by this repository —
normalized, joined, deduplicated, and extended with an identifier this project
defines. Section 105 disclaims copyright in the government's own work and says
nothing about a derivative, so no claim is made here about the CSV's status.
Other redistributed assets