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docs: correct contributor licence to AGPL-3.0 in CONTRIBUTING.md - #990

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The License section of CONTRIBUTING.md says contributions are licensed under the MIT License and links to ./LICENSE. Two problems:

  1. The project ships LICENSE.md containing the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The README and recordly.dev both state AGPL-3.0, so MIT appears to be a leftover from a template.
  2. The link target ./LICENSE does not exist, so it 404s on GitHub.

This matters beyond typo level: contributors are agreeing to a licence in this document that does not match the one the project actually ships, which leaves the terms of past contributions ambiguous.

This PR points the section at AGPL-3.0 and fixes the link to ./LICENSE.md. Docs only, no code change.

Happy to adjust the wording if MIT was the intent and LICENSE.md is the file that is wrong.

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The contribution license statement in CONTRIBUTING.md now references the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 and links to LICENSE.md.

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Update contribution license statement
CONTRIBUTING.md
The contribution license changed from the MIT License to the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The license link changed from ./LICENSE to ./LICENSE.md.

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CONTRIBUTING.md stated that contributions are licensed under the MIT
License and linked to ./LICENSE, but the project ships LICENSE.md
containing the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, and both the
README and recordly.dev state AGPL-3.0.

Point the section at the licence the project actually uses and fix the
link target, which was broken (LICENSE vs LICENSE.md).
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MdSahil8130 force-pushed the fix/contributing-license-mismatch branch from 458b0ea to 4fd4813 Compare September 17, 2026 19:22
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webadderall merged commit b542355 into webadderallorg:main Sep 19, 2026
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