chore: relicense to Apache-2.0 (Signetry goes open core) - #20
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Signetry moves to an open-core model. This repository is part of the integration surface, so it is now Apache-2.0: use it, fork it, ship it commercially, no permission needed. The engine (Signetry/core) is source-available under BUSL-1.1 and converts to Apache-2.0 on 2030-08-31. Until now every repo in the org was "All Rights Reserved" with no LICENSE file, which GitHub reports as no license at all. That is the strictest possible default: it blocks corporate evaluation outright and makes outside contribution legally murky. This fixes that. What changed: - LICENSE (Apache-2.0) added, so GitHub detects and displays it. - README, CONTRIBUTING, CLA, CONTRIBUTORS and the CLA bot comment no longer claim the project is "not open source" or withhold usage rights. - The CLA is kept, because open core means code moves across the licence line and relicensing needs those rights. Its fallback licence grant is now non-exclusive: the previous *exclusive* grant would have stripped contributors of the right to use their own contribution, contradicting the rights the LICENSE grants everyone. The CLA text is now identical across all Signetry repos so the legal terms cannot drift per-repo again. - Community health files (SECURITY.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, issue templates) where they were missing. No functional or API change.
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Signetry goes open core — this repo becomes Apache-2.0
Every repository in the org was previously "All Rights Reserved" with no
LICENSEfile, which GitHub reports as no license at all. That is the most restrictive default there is: it blocks corporate evaluation outright (legal will not clear a dependency with no licence), and it makes outside contribution legally murky even thoughCONTRIBUTING.mdinvited it.This PR fixes that for the integration surface.
Signetry/core)The full map is in
LICENSING.md.What changed
LICENSE(Apache-2.0) added, so GitHub detects and displays it.README.md,CONTRIBUTING.md,CLA.md,CONTRIBUTORS.md, and the CLA bot's PR comment no longer claim the project is "not open source", and no longer tell contributors they gain no right to use their own work.SECURITY.md,CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md(Contributor Covenant v2.1), and GitHub issue templates.One substantive legal change, please read
The CLA is kept — open core means code moves across the licence line, and relicensing needs those rights.
But its fallback grant was wrong. Where copyright assignment is not permitted by law, it previously granted the Owner an exclusive licence. An exclusive grant strips the contributor of the right to use their own contribution — which directly contradicts the rights the
LICENSEgrants everyone, including them. It is now non-exclusive.The CLA text is also now byte-identical across all Signetry repositories (bar the engine/integration licence wording), so these terms cannot silently drift per-repo again.
LICENSING.mdnow also states plainly that the CLA is a copyright assignment, rather than the previous softer wording — a contributor deserves to know that before they start, not after.Risk
No functional or API change. Docs, licence metadata, and workflow comment strings only.