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docs: state plainly that ForgeFIRM is free and open source

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Add a "What this costs" banner to the README and INSTALL, below the
in-development notice. It states that the firmware is free in both
senses, that nothing is paywalled or held back, that the work happens in
public, and that anyone who wants to verify it can read the licenses and
the commit log instead of taking a stranger's word for it.

The banner also warns that a build bought from a third party is that
party's build, not this project's: unreviewed code driving a laser.

Documentation only. No behavior change, so no acceptance catalog
consequence.
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> If you come across a file claiming to be a ForgeFIRM image, it did not come
> from this project.
> # What this costs
>
> Nothing. Not yesterday, not today, and if anyone ever charges you for
> it, it wasn't this project. ForgeFIRM is free in both senses: free as
> in beer, free as in speech. All of it is public, under licenses (MIT
> and GPL) any lawyer will tell you are not a trap.
>
> No paid tier. No license key, no subscription, no activation, no Pro
> edition, no product page, no waitlist, no pre-order, nothing to buy.
> Skepticism is fair and cheap to settle: ten minutes with the licenses
> and the commit log does it, which beats trust on both cost and
> accuracy.
>
> If someone offers to sell you this firmware, the licenses allow it and
> nobody's calling it theft. Just note that what you take home is their
> build, not this one: a stranger's code, running a laser that has no
> opinion about what it burns. Get it from the source.
ForgeFIRM installs **alongside** the factory firmware on the stock eMMC,
using the factory's own A/B rootfs slot scheme: the installer writes
ForgeFIRM to the slot the factory firmware is *not* running from, and