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kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 5 ff734fe728 feat(licensing): declare the deployed software's licence per role
The project licence governs this repository's code and says nothing about the application a role installs, which is where a restriction on commercial use usually sits: a deployment cleared to use Infinito.Nexus commercially is still barred from NLLB-200's CC BY-NC weights.

Each invokable role names its licence in meta/<role>/license.yml with the url it was read from. The rights of a named licence live once in meta/licenses.yml, fifteen fields following the taxonomy choosealicense publishes. AND folds to the strictest combination, OR keeps the most favourable whole licence, and the seven contexts are derived from the rights rather than declared, so a heading cannot contradict the matrix under it.

The generated page renders one matrix per context, a lint refuses a role that declares nothing, and a Playwright spec asserts the page against the deployed docs. 21 of 22 deprecated SPDX ids were resolved against the upstream text; EPSON's remains unread because its AUR page blocks automated access.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 23:35:00 +02:00

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Licence Context
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A role's licence and the licence of the software it deploys are two different
questions. This repository's licence governs its own code; the application a
role installs carries its own terms, and that is usually where a restriction
on commercial use actually sits.
The page below answers the second question per role as a matrix of one column
per right, grouped by what the licence permits. Each role names its licence in
``meta/<role>/license.yml``; the rights of a named licence live once in
``meta/licenses.yml``, and the groupings are derived from them. A role that
declares nothing is listed as undetermined rather than left out, so a gap
never reads as permission.
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