diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 69ceeda..2b1673b 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ remain unchanged. See [FTW's contribution guide](https://github.com/srcfl/ftw/bl ## License of contributions -Contributions to this version use GNU AGPL v3 only with the Energyplan -combination permission in [LICENSE](LICENSE), including that permission. +Contributions to this version use GNU AGPL v3 only with both additional +permissions in [LICENSE](LICENSE): the Energyplan combination permission and +the app store distribution permission. By contributing, you grant both +permissions for your contribution. Preserve third-party licenses and notices. Sign each commit with the DCO as described in [FTW's contribution guide](https://github.com/srcfl/ftw/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). A sign-off does not assign copyright or grant commercial relicensing rights. diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 9f6b17d..b812ef6 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ FTW native app Copyright 2026 Sourceful Labs AB and contributors. This version of the project, as a whole, is licensed under the GNU Affero -General Public License, version 3 only, with the additional permission below. +General Public License, version 3 only, with the two additional permissions +below. Separately identified third-party material and Energyplan binaries retain their own licenses. NOTICE preserves earlier licenses and attributions. See LICENSING.md for scope, source access and distribution instructions. @@ -266,3 +267,42 @@ You may omit Energyplan and use or convey FTW under the GNU AGPL alone. No household-only or noncommercial condition applies to the AGPL-covered code. As section 7 permits, you may remove this additional permission from your copy. If you do so, the GNU AGPL applies without this permission. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +FTW app store distribution permission + +Additional permission under GNU AGPL version 3 section 7. + +App distribution services, such as the Apple App Store, TestFlight and +Google Play, attach their own terms to every copy they deliver. Those terms +may limit how a recipient can use, copy or install that copy, and the service +may add technical measures such as encryption or signing. The GNU AGPL +forbids further restrictions on recipients (section 10), so such terms can +conflict with it. + +For the FTW code covered by this grant, the copyright holders permit you to +convey this program, or a work based on it, in object code form through such +a service, and to accept that service's terms, even where those terms would +otherwise conflict with the GNU AGPL. This permission covers only the +restrictions that come from the service's own terms and technical measures. + +All other conditions of the GNU AGPL remain in force. In particular: + +- Offer the Corresponding Source of the exact version you convey, under the + GNU AGPL and at no charge, outside the service and free of its terms. +- Make the license text and that source offer reachable from within the + program. +- Add no restrictions of your own beyond those the service imposes. +- Provide the Installation Information that section 6 requires. You need not + provide your own signing keys, provisioning profiles or service account + credentials, as long as recipients can build the Corresponding Source and + install it on their own device with the platform's standard developer + tools. + +This permission grants no exception for proprietary modules, plugins or +derivatives of FTW. Third-party code retains its own terms; this grant does +not override them. + +If you modify this program, you may extend this permission to your version. +As section 7 permits, you may also remove it from your copy. If you do so, +the GNU AGPL applies without this permission. diff --git a/LICENSING.md b/LICENSING.md index 21756d0..59f3fa1 100644 --- a/LICENSING.md +++ b/LICENSING.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # FTW native app licensing -This version uses GNU AGPL v3 only, with the narrow Energyplan combination -permission in [LICENSE](LICENSE). [NOTICE](NOTICE) preserves prior Apache +This version uses GNU AGPL v3 only, with two narrow additional permissions in +[LICENSE](LICENSE): the Energyplan combination permission and the app store +distribution permission. [NOTICE](NOTICE) preserves prior Apache rights and attribution. Third-party files retain their own licenses. ## Use and redistribution @@ -61,8 +62,16 @@ build without a revision uses development repository links. An extracted source archive builds without Git; pass its published revision to retain the exact links. Forks must change these links to their own corresponding source. -A store's distribution terms must allow recipients the AGPL rights. This -license change does not establish compatibility with any app store agreement -or grant an exception to store restrictions. Resolve conflicting terms before -distributing through that store, using separate rights only where the rights -holders can grant them. +App stores attach their own terms to each copy. The app store distribution +permission in LICENSE lets you convey FTW through a store such as the App +Store, TestFlight or Google Play despite those terms. Offer the exact +version's Corresponding Source outside the store, make the license and the +source offer reachable in the app, and add no restrictions of your own. +Recipients must be able to build that source and install it on their own +device with the platform's standard developer tools; your signing keys and +store accounts stay yours. + +The permission covers code whose rights holders granted it. Every +contribution to this repository comes with it, as CONTRIBUTING.md says. +Third-party code keeps its own terms, so check that each dependency allows +store distribution before you add it. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5ae3564..7ea34ee 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ wrapping copy so Now paints without a passkey prompt. ## Licence -AGPL-3.0-only with the Energyplan combination permission. See -[LICENSE](LICENSE), [LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md) and [NOTICE](NOTICE). +AGPL-3.0-only with the Energyplan combination permission and an app store +distribution permission. See [LICENSE](LICENSE), [LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md) +and [NOTICE](NOTICE). Earlier Apache-licensed versions retain their earlier grants.