add asset licensing notices

Adds ASSETS.md, NOTICE.md, per-directory READMEs, third-party license
texts, a CI check that notices don't rot, and README forking-guideline
updates. Carves commissioned artwork, the licensed icon system, and
Bluesky marks out of the blanket MIT license. See LEGMS-208.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The user-interface glyphs in this directory are from the
[Central icon system](https://iconists.co/central) by Iconists (David & Storm GbR). Bluesky
Social PBC licenses them for use in our own products. **That license is for our own use, and it
does not extend to you.**
**These icons are not covered by the [MIT license](../../LICENSE) that applies to the rest of
this repository.** If you want to use them, buy a license from
[iconists.co](https://iconists.co). There are also good openly licensed icon sets if you would
rather not.
This notice covers the SVG files at the top level of this directory. It does not cover:
- `flags/` — country-flag-icons, MIT licensed, see [`flags/README.md`](./flags/README.md)
- `community/` — third-party service marks, see [`community/README.md`](./community/README.md)
- `logomark.svg`, `newskie.svg`, `verifiedCheck.svg`, `verifierCheck.svg`, `starterPack.svg`,
`starter_pack_icon.svg` — Bluesky trademarks and brand assets
- `custom_logo_japan.svg` — artwork by a Bluesky Japan logo contest entrant
- `apple_logo.svg`, `android_logo.svg` — Apple and Google trademarks
Each of those is described in [`ASSETS.md`](../../ASSETS.md).
Adding an icon here? If it came from Central, this notice already covers it. If it came from
anywhere else, add it to `ASSETS.md` so the notice does not go stale.
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The icons in this directory are the marks of third-party
services that appear in the Bluesky app — [Leaflet](https://leaflet.pub),
[Offprint](https://offprint.net), pckt, and standard-site.
**These marks belong to their respective owners.** They are not Bluesky trademarks, they are not
covered by the [MIT license](../../../LICENSE) that applies to the rest of this repository, and we
are not in a position to grant or withhold permission to use them. We include them to identify
those services in our UI.
If you fork this repository and keep these icons, your use of them rests on your own
nominative-use basis or on permission from the mark owner.
See [`ASSETS.md`](../../../ASSETS.md) for the full asset licensing picture.