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chore: relicense to GPL-3.0-or-later - #6

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The repository shipped no LICENSE file at all while Cargo.toml and the
README both claimed MIT. With no licence text in the tree GitHub showed
no licence and the work was effectively all-rights-reserved, so the two
MIT claims had nothing behind them. The project is licensed
GPL-3.0-or-later, so both claims were wrong as well as unbacked.

  • LICENSE: added, verbatim FSF GNU General Public License version 3
    text, so the stated licence actually exists in the tree and GitHub can
    detect it.
  • Cargo.toml: license = "MIT" -> "GPL-3.0-or-later", the SPDX string that
    crates.io, cargo-deny and packaging tooling read.
  • README.md: the bare "MIT" under ## License now states
    GPL-3.0-or-later and links to the new LICENSE file.

The JetBrains Mono Nerd Font files under assets/fonts/ are third-party
assets and are untouched.

The repository shipped no LICENSE file at all while Cargo.toml and the
README both claimed MIT. With no licence text in the tree GitHub showed
no licence and the work was effectively all-rights-reserved, so the two
MIT claims had nothing behind them. The project is licensed
GPL-3.0-or-later, so both claims were wrong as well as unbacked.

- LICENSE: added, verbatim FSF GNU General Public License version 3
  text, so the stated licence actually exists in the tree and GitHub can
  detect it.
- Cargo.toml: license = "MIT" -> "GPL-3.0-or-later", the SPDX string that
  crates.io, cargo-deny and packaging tooling read.
- README.md: the bare "MIT" under ## License now states
  GPL-3.0-or-later and links to the new LICENSE file.

The JetBrains Mono Nerd Font files under assets/fonts/ are third-party
assets and are untouched.
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MotherSphere merged commit d510fe4 into main Aug 1, 2026
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MotherSphere deleted the chore/relicense-gpl-3.0-or-later branch August 1, 2026 10:31
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