docs: relicense under MIT/Apache 2.0 #841
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See #813 for discussion and assent from major contributors to relicense git-branchless. From that link: > Hi everyone, as you may know, git-branchless was licensed as GPL-2.0-only so that it could use Sapling SCM's DAG implementation (see #65). It was always my intention to license the program source code itself more permissively, but the resulting program (when linked against a GPL library) becomes GPL-licensed as a whole. This is confusing to explain and implement, so I simply licensed the whole program under GPL 2.0. > > The DAG library is licensed as MIT as of v0.3.0. After upgrading, we will no longer have any GPL dependencies. I am proposing that we relicense git-branchless to a dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license, so that we can reuse components in other systems such as Jujutsu (i.e. copy and paste some code one day). I've already started writing smaller modules licensed under MIT/Apache-2.0 to that end.
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