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chore: relicense to PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 - #8
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Adds the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 as this repository's license. Noncommercial use stays free and is named explicitly in the license text: personal study and hobby projects, educational institutions, charitable organizations and nonprofits, public research organizations, and government institutions, regardless of how they are funded. Commercial use now requires a separate agreement with the station; COMMERCIAL.md explains who needs one and how to ask. Attribution is carried by the `Required Notice:` lines at the bottom of LICENSE, which PolyForm requires to travel with the software to anyone who receives it. Relicensing is prospective only. Every version already published under the previous license stays under those terms.
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Adds the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 (SPDX
PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0) as part of the org-wide relicensing. Wave 1 — the 17 repos with a sole copyright holder — landed first; this repo is in the wave that has outside contributors.What stays free
Named as permitted purposes in the license itself, with no need to ask:
The license grants this "regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting from the funding," so grant- and university-funded use is covered.
What changes
Commercial use requires a separate agreement. See
COMMERCIAL.md.Attribution
The
Required Notice:lines at the bottom ofLICENSEmust be passed along to anyone who receives any part of the software, which makes attribution a license condition rather than a convention.Prior releases
Prospective only. Versions already published under the previous license remain under it permanently, and existing copies keep the rights they were given.
Notes for review
---is upstream PolyForm text, verbatim. Only the trailing notice block is repo-specific.Authorship — please confirm before merging
Every commit in this repository is @rybesh's; none are station-authored. That makes this the one repo in the relicensing where the change is being proposed over someone else's work rather than the station's, so it should not merge on the org-wide decision alone.
@rybesh — two questions, and either answer is fine:
If (2), close this PR and we'll arrange the transfer.