docs: record licensing (ADR-0001) and apply the licenses - #4
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ADR-0001 records the three-party decision on issue #1: CC-BY-4.0 for the specification text, Apache-2.0 for the schema, fixtures and conformance tests, and the Developer Certificate of Origin for contributions. Adds LICENSE (Apache-2.0), LICENSE-docs (CC-BY-4.0), CONTRIBUTING.md documenting the DCO sign-off, and a License section in the README. SPDX identifiers on the schema and conformance files land together with those files. Signed-off-by: sepehr-safari <safari.sepehr@gmail.com>
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Applies the licensing decided in #1, where all three of us agreed on the split (juherr proposed, I endorsed on 2026-07-16, shiv3 confirmed on 2026-07-19), and records the rationale as ADR-0001.
What's here
docs/adr/0001-licensing.md: the decision and its rationale.LICENSE: Apache-2.0, covering the schema, fixtures, and conformance tests (canonical text).LICENSE-docs: CC-BY-4.0, covering the specification prose (canonical text).CONTRIBUTING.md: the DCO sign-off, no CLA.Licensesection in the README stating what applies to what.SPDX identifiers on the schema and conformance files are left to land together with those files (they come in via #3).
For @juherr
Since the point of this repo is that no single project's choice governs the format, the file layout is yours to confirm before this merges. I used
LICENSE(Apache-2.0) plusLICENSE-docs(CC-BY-4.0), with the README explaining the split, but the alternative in #1's acceptance criteria (a single rootLICENSEplus a per-directoryLICENSEwhere the model splits) works just as well. Happy to adjust to whatever you prefer, or to hold for your review.Note
This touches the README, which #3 also edits, so whichever of the two lands second will need a trivial merge (the changes are in different sections).
Closes #1