From 79430eb7237e18b9b9de51eed64e21c170cc4238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick szymkowiak Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:29:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] chore: switch to Apache-2.0 license --- .github/workflows/release.yml | 2 +- Cargo.toml | 2 +- LICENSE | 211 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ README.md | 2 +- 4 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml index e5e9ced..c3954c1 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/release.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ jobs: desc "Cross-platform TTS CLI — local voice synthesis with three backends" homepage "https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox" version "VERSION_PLACEHOLDER" - license "MIT" + license "Apache-2.0" on_macos do on_intel do diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml index 1a2c724..9714779 100644 --- a/Cargo.toml +++ b/Cargo.toml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "vox" version = "0.9.1" edition = "2024" description = "Cross-platform TTS CLI — local voice synthesis with Qwen and system say" -license = "LicenseRef-Proprietary" +license = "Apache-2.0" repository = "https://github.com/rtk-ai/vox" keywords = ["tts", "voice", "speech", "cli"] categories = ["command-line-utilities", "multimedia::audio"] diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 5115d8b..9ac072b 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,44 +1,191 @@ -VOX SOURCE-AVAILABLE LICENSE v1.0 -Copyright (c) 2025-2026 RTK AI. 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