Offer MIT alongside Apache-2.0 - #984
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Let recipients choose MIT without dropping the existing Apache patent grant. Ship both license texts in crate packages and binary archives, and keep Cargo, VS Code, documentation, and inbound contribution terms aligned with a packaging ratchet. Closes #983 Co-authored-by: GitHub Copilot <copilot@github.com>
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What this changes
Deed is Apache-2.0 only today. This lets recipients choose MIT or Apache-2.0 and ships both texts in every Cargo package and binary release archive.
Closes #983.
Why this way
Dual licensing opens MIT-only consumers without dropping Apache-2.0's explicit patent grant. The workspace keeps one SPDX expression, every crate inherits it, and a packaging test holds Cargo, VS Code, release archives, documentation and inbound contribution terms together.
What it still does not do
This does not change Deed's language, runtime or compatibility policy. Existing Apache-2.0 users do not need to change anything.
Checks
cargo fmt --all -- --checkcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningscargo nextest run --workspace --profile ci --no-fail-fast(2523 passed, 4 skipped)cargo test --doc --workspace(11 passed)cargo test -p deed-driver --test publishing(5 passed)cargo test -p deed-driver --test documentation(31 passed, 1 ignored)cargo package --listincludes both license texts for all 20 packagesactionlint .github/workflows/release.yml