The 162 boundary licences, fetched rather than assumed

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regions-plugin's third-party register (their ATTRIBUTION landing) flagged this row as mine, and they were
right: my own PROVENANCE.json already said "gbOpen passes through each country UPSTREAM licence — this
collection is MIXED-LICENCE with per-country attribution duties" and then left `licences: {}` empty. The
duty was NAMED and not DISCHARGED, which is the worst of both — it reads as handled.

★ THE NUMBERS ARE WHY THIS MATTERED, and I did not expect them to be this lopsided:
    130 of 162 countries carry an ATTRIBUTION or SHARE-ALIKE duty
     32 are duty-free (Public Domain 28 + CC0 4)
     58 Open Data Commons ODbL · 44 CC BY 4.0 · 13 CC BY 3.0 IGO · 7 ShareAlike · 2 OGL v3 · …
The repo is meant to be given away, so those duties travel with boundaries/world-adm0*.geojson. Shipping
the file does not discharge them; naming the source does.
⚠ THE 7 SHARE-ALIKE COUNTRIES GET THEIR OWN FIELD (AGO GAB GEO GIN MMR NER TUR) because ShareAlike is a
STRONGER duty than attribution — a derivative may have to be licensed alike — and a blanket "mostly CC BY"
summary would hide exactly the ones that constrain a giveaway.

METHOD: one query per country against the endpoint the file already documents,
https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/ADM0/, throttled at ~3/s, recording
boundaryLicense / licenseSource / boundaryID / boundarySource verbatim. 162 fetched, 0 failures.
Spot-checked SDN against the live API after writing: byte-identical. No licence is inferred — regions'
point that "guessing a licence is worse than recording none" is exactly right, and every value here came
off the wire.

⚠ THE OLD "CCK: meta HTTP 404" GAP IS RESOLVED AS OBSOLETE, NOT FIXED, and the distinction is recorded in
the file. CCK is not in world-adm0.geojson at all — 0 features, absent from the ISO list — so that 404 was
a fetch for a country that never shipped. It took three checks to establish: `.get('CCK',{})` returned None
and I read it as "null licence", then as "failed fetch", before asking whether the key was there at all.
The gaps list is now genuinely empty rather than empty-because-unmeasured.

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