license: AGPL-3.0 → PolyForm Internal Use 1.0.0#21
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Source-available, permanent, no sunset. Internal business use by any organization (including for-profit) remains free and unchanged. Hosted or managed-service offerings, redistribution, resale, and embedding AgentWrit in a sold product now require a commercial license — contact licensing@agentwrit.com. - LICENSE: full text replaced with PolyForm Internal Use 1.0.0 canonical + dual-license header and commercial-license contact - README.md: license badge and License section updated with the new permit/forbid split and dual-license contact line - CHANGELOG.md: Changed entry under [Unreleased] documenting the relicense, the unchanged free internal-use grant, and SemVer posture - Dockerfile: org.opencontainers.image.licenses OCI label updated from AGPL-3.0-only to PolyForm-Internal-Use-1.0.0 - docs/api/openapi.yaml: info.license block updated - docs/getting-started-operator.md: OCI labels reference updated SPDX-License-Identifier: PolyForm-Internal-Use-1.0.0
Both checks require GitHub Advanced Security on private repos. Since the repo is currently private, they fail with "not supported" errors. continue-on-error surfaces these as warnings (orange) rather than failures (red) — they are not in the gates-passed chain and will auto-resolve when the repo flips public.
This reverts commit a93cbb3.
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Every .go file in cmd/ and internal/ (77 files) now carries // SPDX-License-Identifier: PolyForm-Internal-Use-1.0.0 as its first line, per the PolyForm relicense (PR #21). CI contamination gate extended with an SPDX header check so new Go files without the header fail the gate. Mirrored in scripts/gates.sh for gate parity.
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Summary
Relicense from AGPL-3.0 to PolyForm Internal Use License 1.0.0 — source-available, permanent, no sunset — with a dual-license path for commercial-use counterparties.
The AGPL pick from five days ago was made under a misunderstanding that AGPL prevented resale. It does not — "freedom to sell" is a foundational freedom of GPL/AGPL. This PR corrects the license to match the actual intent: free for internal business use, commercial license required for hosted / SaaS / embedded / resale use.
What remains free (unchanged)
Any individual, business, or organization — including for-profit companies — may use and modify AgentWrit for their own internal operations at no cost and without contacting the licensor. Contractors acting on behalf of a permitted user are covered for the duration of their engagement. This is unchanged from the prior AGPL grant and is the baseline for the vast majority of users.
What newly requires a commercial license
Commercial-license contact: licensing@agentwrit.com. Non-commercial / research use (nonprofits, education, mentorship programs, open-source projects, trade groups) is typically granted a free license on request.
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SemVer posture
License change, not a behavior change. No wire-format changes. No API changes. Deployed brokers continue to run unchanged. Anyone pinning `v2.0.0` or earlier under AGPL should be aware that subsequent releases ship under PolyForm Internal Use 1.0.0.
Stacked work (PR 2)
Follow-up PR on `chore/spdx-headers-polyform` (stacked on this branch) will add `// SPDX-License-Identifier: PolyForm-Internal-Use-1.0.0` to every Go source file in `internal/` and `cmd/`. Separated from this PR to keep license-semantic review separate from a ~60-file mechanical diff.
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