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Update Contributor License Agreement for dual AGPLv3/MIT licensing

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With a little help of copilot/claude sonnet 4.

- Add explicit CLA agreement checkbox to PR template
- Update README with commercial licensing information and future CLA revision notice
- Enable dual licensing strategy while maintaining contributor-friendly approach
- Use license grants instead of copyright assignment for practical implementation
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Jürgen Fuhrmann
2025-07-29 18:13:19 +02:00
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@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@ By submitting a contribution Contributor agrees to the following terms:
## Dual AGPLv3/MIT License Grant
Contributor agrees that their contribution is provided under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3) reproduced
in the file [LICENSE](LICENSE) or any later version and, in addition, under the following MIT License terms:
in the file [LICENSE](LICENSE) or any later version and, in addition, grants the contribution under the MIT License terms below:
```text
Copyright (c) [Year] [Contributor's Name]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
@@ -31,17 +29,16 @@ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
```
## Annotating contributions to source code
### Trivial changes
Trivial changes (e.g., 1-2 line fixes or typo fixes) inherit the AGPLv3 license of the project and without further annotation in addition are assumed to be licensed under the MIT license
Trivial changes (e.g., 1-2 line fixes or typo fixes) inherit the AGPLv3 license of the project and without further annotation are also licensed under MIT as specified above.
### Functions and nontrivial snippets of code
Functions and nontrivial snippets of code by default inherit the AGPLv3 license of the project and in addition shall be marked in a PR with an SPDX header as in this example:
Functions and nontrivial snippets of code by default inherit the AGPLv3 license of the project and are also licensed under MIT as specified above. They shall be marked in a PR with an SPDX header as in this example:
```
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Copyright (c) [Year] [Your Name]
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR MIT
# Copyright (c) [Year] [Contributor Name]
void frobnicate(int ntet)
{
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