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Licensing notes

Gossipper is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). The full license text lives in the repository root at LICENSE.

What this means in practice

  • You can use, copy, modify, and redistribute the code
  • Modified works and network services using this software must provide source code
  • You must keep the copyright notice and license terms
  • The software is provided without warranty

SPDX guidance

At the moment, the repository license is defined by the root LICENSE file. Per-file SPDX headers are optional, not mandatory.

If the project later adopts SPDX headers for source files, use:

SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0

Recommended approach if headers are introduced later:

  • apply them consistently across source files
  • avoid mixing different header formats in the same repository
  • keep the root LICENSE file even if SPDX headers are added

Scope

This file is only a short project policy note. The legal license terms are the ones written in LICENSE.