Scope licensing: CC BY 4.0 for our specs/CMR-SMR; Backblaze AFR under Backblaze terms

Backblaze Drive Stats forbids selling the data itself, which CC BY 4.0 permits,
so the failure-rate fields can't be CC BY 4.0. README now splits the licence and
a NOTICE documents the Backblaze-sourced fields (cite Backblaze; no resale of the
data; no endorsement). drives.json/csv re-exported from the corrected live API.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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NOTICE - third-party data
This repository combines two sources under two different sets of terms.
1. Drive specifications and CMR/SMR classification
(c) nasdisks.com - https://www.nasdisks.com
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
See LICENSE.
2. Failure-rate data
Fields: afr_pct, reliability_drive_count, reliability_drive_days,
reliability_failures (in data/drives.csv and data/drives.json), and the
whole of data/backblaze-afr.csv.
Source: Backblaze Drive Stats
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data
These figures are derived from Backblaze's published Drive Stats data and
remain subject to Backblaze's terms, NOT CC BY 4.0:
- cite Backblaze as the source;
- you may not sell the data itself (selling derivative works is allowed);
- you are solely responsible for how you use the data.
Backblaze does not endorse this project.