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Change licensing to aGPL

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What are you missing or what could be improved?

The CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence is not appropriate for releasing the website's source code:

  • it doesn't mention source code
  • it isn't compatible with major software licences

What is the solution you'd like to see?

Relicense the website's code under aGPL, while preserving the original MIT licence (incl. copyright notice, permission notice & warranty disclaimer).

Thus, release the website's source code as combined work:

  • any elements offered by Material for MkDocs remain under the MIT licence
  • any elements added by the GoFOSS team and its contributors are licenced under aGPL

Following files need to be changed/updated:

  • LICENSE
  • mkdocs.yml
  • README.md
  • disclaimer.md

Do you have additional comments?

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Edited by crixus