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Relicense from GPLv3-or-later to MIT, and state the copyright holder Nothing required copyleft. No dependency alloy links is copyleft (195 linked packages, all MIT or Apache), it is not a fork, and shipping inside an image beside the kernel is aggregation rather than a combined work. The license was chosen in the scaffold commit on 2026-06-26 and never revisited. It was not free, either. GPL section 7 forbids the added noncommercial restriction, so nothing under GPL here could ever be linked from a PolyForm product, and that bet lost twice: alloy_tui had to be relicensed and moved to its own repo in July so got could take it, and synckit-config has to come back out of this console for the same reason. Both fixes moved code out of GPL's reach rather than asking what GPL was buying. It was buying nothing. The rule now: anything meant to earn money for Make Creative is PolyForm Noncommercial, everything else is as permissive as its upstream allows. Alloy is not sold and every crate it links is MIT or Apache, so MIT is the floor and there was no reason to sit above it. Releases published before this stay GPLv3 for whoever holds them. That binds nothing going forward, and README says so rather than leaving someone to find the discrepancy in the history. The copyright notice is new, not merely changed. LICENSE was the verbatim GPL text, whose only copyright lines belong to the FSF and cover the license document; no file in the repo named a holder. A copyleft work stating no holder makes provenance and enforcement ambiguous, and alloy_tui had been doing this correctly all along. `alloy --version` now carries it, which is where a person looks and where a binary installed from an image can still be asked.
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Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-07-30 19:10 UTC
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4 4
5 5 ## License
6 6
7 - Alloy is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. See [LICENSE](LICENSE). Code contributed to this repository must be compatible with GPLv3+. Any future code outside this license (vendored dependencies, etc.) must carry compatible terms.
7 + Alloy is MIT, copyright Make Creative, LLC. See [LICENSE](LICENSE). Contributed code must be MIT-compatible, and a dependency that is not stays out: no GPL, AGPL or LGPL, which would pull the whole binary back into copyleft.
8 8
9 - The design system is deliberately not in this repo: [`alloy_tui`](https://makenot.work/git/max/alloy_tui) is a separate MIT crate, consumed here from crates.io. It is the reusable library rather than the application, so publishing it permissively lets other terminal UIs adopt Alloy's look without inheriting copyleft, and lets non-GPL siblings link it. Everything in this repo is GPLv3+.
9 + It was GPLv3-or-later until 2026-07-30. The rule it now follows is that anything meant to earn money for Make Creative is PolyForm Noncommercial and everything else is as permissive as its upstream allows. Alloy is not sold, and every crate it links is MIT or Apache, so MIT is the floor and there was no reason to sit above it. Copyleft had twice blocked code from moving between Alloy and its siblings, which is the cost it was charging for nothing.
10 +
11 + The design system, [`alloy_tui`](https://makenot.work/git/max/alloy_tui), is MIT in its own repo and consumed here from crates.io. It is the reusable library rather than the application, and it versions on its own cadence because projects outside Alloy depend on it.
10 12
11 13 ## Project state
12 14
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6 6 edition = "2024"
7 7 # 1.88 is ratatui 0.30.2's floor, and alloy_tui requires it for `Block::shadow`.
8 8 rust-version = "1.88"
9 - license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
9 + license = "MIT"
10 10 repository = "https://makenot.work/git/max/alloy"
11 11 authors = ["Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd>"]
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16 - [`alloy_tui`](https://makenot.work/git/max/alloy_tui), lives in its own repo under
17 - MIT, so other projects can build terminal UIs on it without taking on copyleft.
18 - See [`LICENSE`](LICENSE) and [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md).
15 + MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 Make Creative, LLC. See [`LICENSE`](LICENSE).
16 +
17 + Alloy was GPLv3-or-later until 2026-07-30. Nothing required it: no dependency it
18 + links is copyleft, it is not a fork of anything, and shipping inside an image
19 + next to the kernel is mere aggregation rather than a combined work. The license
20 + was a scaffold-time choice that twice cost more than it bought, blocking code
21 + from moving between Alloy and its siblings. Releases made before the change
22 + remain available under GPLv3 to anyone who has them.
23 +
24 + The design system it renders through,
25 + [`alloy_tui`](https://makenot.work/git/max/alloy_tui), is MIT in its own repo and
26 + consumed from crates.io.
19 27
20 28 ## Docs
21 29
M crates/alloy/src/main.rs +29 -1
@@ -33,8 +33,36 @@
33 33
34 34 use crate::cli::CommandLog;
35 35
36 + /// What `alloy --version` prints under the version line.
37 + ///
38 + /// Who holds the copyright and under what terms, where a person looks for it.
39 + /// `LICENSE` is the license text and says nothing about whose work it covers;
40 + /// this is the notice that does. MIT asks that the notice travel with the
41 + /// software, and a binary installed from an image arrives without the repo, so
42 + /// carrying it here is what keeps it attached to the thing people actually run.
43 + ///
44 + /// The version line itself stays first and unchanged. The image build asserts on
45 + /// `alloy --version | grep -q '^alloy '` to prove it did not ship the stub main
46 + /// from the Containerfile's cache split, and that assertion reads the first line.
47 + ///
48 + /// Starts with the version and not the name: clap prints the binary name ahead
49 + /// of this string, so naming it here gets `alloy alloy 0.0.0`.
50 + const NOTICE: &str = concat!(
51 + env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
52 + "\n",
53 + "Copyright (c) 2026 Make Creative, LLC\n",
54 + "License MIT: <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>\n",
55 + "This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\n",
56 + "There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law."
57 + );
58 +
36 59 #[derive(Parser)]
37 - #[command(name = "alloy", about = "Alloy Console", version)]
60 + #[command(
61 + name = "alloy",
62 + about = "Alloy Console",
63 + version,
64 + long_version = NOTICE
65 + )]
38 66 struct Cli {
39 67 /// Theme id to render in (default: Akari, matched to the terminal background)
40 68 #[arg(long, global = true)]