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- Add legal transition language to LICENSE header - Update to Apache-2.0 for new code/specs, CC-BY-4.0 for docs - Existing MIT contributions remain under MIT - Update copyright to LF Projects, LLC - Simplify ANTITRUST.md to link to LF policy - Update package.json license and author
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As part of MCP joining the Linux Foundation, this PR updates licensing to Apache 2.0 for new contributions while grandfathering existing MIT code. See modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#1994
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As part of MCP joining the Linux Foundation, this PR updates licensing to Apache 2.0 for new contributions while grandfathering existing MIT code. See modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#1994 --------- Co-authored-by: Konstantin Pavlov <1517853+kpavlov@users.noreply.github.com>
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As part of MCP joining the Linux Foundation, this PR updates licensing to Apache 2.0 for new contributions while grandfathering existing MIT code. See modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#1994
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As part of MCP joining the Linux Foundation, this PR updates licensing to Apache 2.0 for new contributions while grandfathering existing MIT code. See modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#1994 --------- Co-authored-by: Maciek Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
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As part of MCP joining the Linux Foundation, this PR updates the project licensing to align with LF project standards.
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This is part of the work discussed in the MCP Working Group thread. Once this PR is approved, the same changes will be applied to all other MCP repos.