Clarify Cedar Detect licensing + add bin/ license and README#448
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Cedar Detect (the prebuilt server binaries in bin/) is published under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-MIT), which excludes commercial/competing use. PiFinder bundles and ships it commercially under a separate license granted expressly by the copyright holder. Make this explicit: - Top-level README: distinguish Cedar Solve (Apache-2.0) from Cedar Detect (FSL-1.1-MIT), state PiFinder's commercial use is by express separate permission, and point to bin/. Also fix the "Ceder" typo and the broken [smroid] link. - bin/README.md: describe the binaries, link to the upstream repo, and explain the FSL terms and PiFinder's separate commercial grant. - bin/LICENSE-cedar-detect.md: verbatim copy of the upstream Cedar Detect license (FSL-1.1-MIT), satisfying its redistribution requirement to include the terms and retain the copyright notice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Makes the Cedar Detect licensing situation explicit. Cedar Detect (the prebuilt server binaries in
bin/) is published under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-MIT), which excludes commercial/competing use. Because PiFinder is also offered commercially, it bundles and ships these binaries under a separate license granted expressly by the copyright holder (Steven Rosenthal / smroid), not under the public FSL terms. The FSL itself invites this: "The Software is available to be licensed under different terms; please contact the copyright holder."Changes
README.md— Distinguish the two upstream libraries: Cedar Solve is Apache-2.0 (permissive), Cedar Detect is FSL-1.1-MIT. State that PiFinder's commercial bundling of Cedar Detect is by express separate permission, and link tobin/. Also fixes the "Ceder" typo and the broken[smroid]markdown link in the same paragraph.bin/README.md(new) — Describes the two binaries (aarch64/arm64), links to the upstream repo, and explains the FSL terms vs. PiFinder's separate commercial grant. Notes the distinction from the project's own GPL-3.0 license.bin/LICENSE-cedar-detect.md(new) — Verbatim copy of the upstream Cedar Detect license (FSL-1.1-MIT), including the copyright notice. The FSL's redistribution clause requires including a copy of (or link to) the terms and retaining copyright notices; this satisfies it.Notes
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