From 496cfce5ea0f58f12860071c0db62ae8bf5435a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ramesh Padmanabhaiah Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:25:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Move README license notice --- CHANGELOG.md | 1 + README.md | 28 ++++++++-------------------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 915b5f3..f618186 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and versions are tracked in the repo-root `VERSION` file. ### Changed +- Moved the README license notice out of the opening project summary. - Relicensed Banyan Labs prospectively from MIT to AGPL-3.0-or-later. ### Added diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a809c39..37e630b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,26 +2,6 @@ Banyan Labs is a realistic infrastructure and platform engineering lab. -## License - -Copyright (C) 2019-2026 Ramesh Padmanabhaiah - -Banyan Labs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free -Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any -later version. - -Banyan Labs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY -WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A -PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more -details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along -with Banyan Labs. If not, see . - -Versions before this relicensing change remain available under the MIT License -as originally published. New versions are licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. - The purpose is to build deep DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering knowledge by assembling real services and infrastructure tools into a meaningful environment. Certifications can introduce AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, @@ -138,3 +118,11 @@ Banyan Labs follows Base's issue-first GitHub workflow: See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [docs/github-workflow.md](docs/github-workflow.md) for the full workflow. + +## License + +Banyan Labs is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. + +Versions before the AGPL relicensing change remain available under the MIT +License as originally published. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for the current license +terms.