Upcoming License Change [DONE]

[alexmadeathing]

I am aware that the current license of dilate, ACSL, is poorly worded, vague, and potentially off putting to many developers as a result. I'm working to improve my knowledge in this area, but it takes time and reading. I still want to keep the anti-capitalist leanings, however, naturally the options are limited.

It makes sense to switch the license up early, whilst dilate is still only used by only a handful of developers and has no current contributors besides myself. Doing it later could be messy.

These are some of the other licenses I'm considering:

• https://firstdonoharm.dev/
• https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
• https://gitlab.com/cal-coop/cooperative-software-license/-/blob/master/csl.text
• https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

Once I have read up, I will make a follow up post to confirm the decision and reasoning. If there are any contributors to dilate, they will be consulted prior to implementing the change.

[alexmadeathing]

To enable more permissive licensing options and better integrate with the Rust community, we're just going with the standard MIT or APACHE 2.0 licenses, released in v0.6.3.

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