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    Use The Unlicense for public domain dedication · 43908ace
    Dmitry Chestnykh authored
    This software is in public domain: it was derived from the public domain
    code and includes only public domain code. To indicate this for NPM, we
    used "SEE LICENSE IN COPYING.txt" file in package.json (because "public
    domain" is not in SPDX list (https://spdx.org/licenses/), which wasn't
    ideal, as it required manual review to figure out the licensing
    situation.
    
    This commit switches our text for public domain dedication to
    The Unlicense. Now automated tools and GitHub can display "Unlicense",
    making it clear that the project is in public domain.
    
    Additionally, this commit adds AUTHORS.md file to list all authors of
    this code (useful for legal purposes, as in some jurisdictions even
    public domain code requires attribution), and a new pull request
    template requiring contributors to explicitly release their contribution
    to the public domain for non-trivial changes.
    
    File ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md has been removed, as hopefully this change will
    stop issues about licensing.
    43908ace
    Use The Unlicense for public domain dedication
    Dmitry Chestnykh authored
    This software is in public domain: it was derived from the public domain
    code and includes only public domain code. To indicate this for NPM, we
    used "SEE LICENSE IN COPYING.txt" file in package.json (because "public
    domain" is not in SPDX list (https://spdx.org/licenses/), which wasn't
    ideal, as it required manual review to figure out the licensing
    situation.
    
    This commit switches our text for public domain dedication to
    The Unlicense. Now automated tools and GitHub can display "Unlicense",
    making it clear that the project is in public domain.
    
    Additionally, this commit adds AUTHORS.md file to list all authors of
    this code (useful for legal purposes, as in some jurisdictions even
    public domain code requires attribution), and a new pull request
    template requiring contributors to explicitly release their contribution
    to the public domain for non-trivial changes.
    
    File ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md has been removed, as hopefully this change will
    stop issues about licensing.
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