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Apache 2.0 Licensing is invalid #48

Closed joe-at-startupmedia closed 1 month ago

joe-at-startupmedia commented 1 month ago

According to the Apache Software Foundation, the current LICENSE file is invalid and does not fulfill the legal requirements based on the instructions which specifically includes providing a proper NOTICE. https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice

This repositroy is technically a derivative work from pmon2 but since it was not licensed properly by the original author it was never effectively licensed, and as such, removing said invalid license is not only perfectly legal but desired by myself: the current author, maintainer and majority contributor to this repository.

I want to clarify that this is not because I wish to remove any credits from the original author. If that was the case I would have rebased the git history from my initial forking commit, thereby removing any commit history by the previous authors which is still clearly visible in the commit history.