chore: relicense to GPL-3.0-or-later - #4
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Eidos was consistently GPL-3.0-only. Nothing here was contradictory; this broadens the grant so downstreams may redistribute under version 3 or any later GPL the FSF publishes, and so the copyleft dependencies Eidos already links (libloot, GPL-3.0-or-later) compose without a version ceiling. The LICENSE file is deliberately untouched: the verbatim FSF GPL-3.0 text is identical for -only and -or-later. The distinction lives entirely in the SPDX strings and the prose, which is what changed: * Cargo.toml - the workspace `license` key. All 17 member crates take it via `license.workspace = true` and none overrides it, so this single line is the whole Rust-metadata change. * packaging/PKGBUILD - `license=()`, the SPDX id pacman records. The `install -Dm644 LICENSE` line is unaffected, the shipped text is unchanged. * README.md - the License section said a bare "GPL-3.0", which reads as -only to anyone applying the SPDX default. * assets/brand/README.md - same bare "GPL-3.0" on the grant covering the logo and icon artwork, which is first-party original work. * crates/eidos-gamefeatures/assets/PROVENANCE.md - names Eidos's own licence when flagging how it interacts with the bundled Microsoft DirectX redistributables. Only that reference moved; the surrounding statement that those DLLs are governed by the Microsoft Windows SDK terms is untouched. Third-party material was left exactly as found, since it is not ours to relicense: the MO2 toolbar icons under crates/eidos-gui/assets/icons (GPL-3.0, ModOrganizer2/modorganizer, attributed in main.rs), the upstream MO2 plugins vendored under reference/ (GPL-3.0, the Mod Organizer 2 Team), and the Microsoft DirectX redistributable DLLs described in PROVENANCE.md.
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Eidos was consistently GPL-3.0-only. Nothing here was contradictory; this
broadens the grant so downstreams may redistribute under version 3 or any
later GPL the FSF publishes, and so the copyleft dependencies Eidos already
links (libloot, GPL-3.0-or-later) compose without a version ceiling.
The LICENSE file is deliberately untouched: the verbatim FSF GPL-3.0 text is
identical for -only and -or-later. The distinction lives entirely in the SPDX
strings and the prose, which is what changed:
licensekey. All 17 member crates take it vialicense.workspace = trueand none overrides it, so this single line is thewhole Rust-metadata change.
license=(), the SPDX id pacman records. Theinstall -Dm644 LICENSEline is unaffected, the shipped text is unchanged.to anyone applying the SPDX default.
and icon artwork, which is first-party original work.
when flagging how it interacts with the bundled Microsoft DirectX
redistributables. Only that reference moved; the surrounding statement that
those DLLs are governed by the Microsoft Windows SDK terms is untouched.
Third-party material was left exactly as found, since it is not ours to
relicense: the MO2 toolbar icons under crates/eidos-gui/assets/icons (GPL-3.0,
ModOrganizer2/modorganizer, attributed in main.rs), the upstream MO2 plugins
vendored under reference/ (GPL-3.0, the Mod Organizer 2 Team), and the
Microsoft DirectX redistributable DLLs described in PROVENANCE.md.