License the repository under AGPL-3.0-or-later

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Open-sources the repository under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later — the code is readable, buildable and forkable by anyone, and stays that way through any fork.

Why AGPL rather than GPL

The interesting fork of a dictation and meeting-notes app is a hosted one. Plain GPL lets someone take this, modify it, run it as a transcription or notes service, and give nothing back — distribution is the trigger, and running a server isn't distribution. Section 13 of the AGPL closes exactly that: a modified version offered over a network owes its source to the people using it. Everything else is identical to GPLv3, and it keeps a dual-licensing option open if a commercial edition ever makes sense.

What lands

• LICENSE — the verbatim FSF text (canonical wrapping), so GitHub's detector and every downstream scanner identify it as AGPL-3.0. Fetched from two independent mirrors and diffed to confirm they agree.
• README.md — a ## License section in plain terms, plus a one-line pointer under the demo. It spells out what most people actually need to know: local use obliges nothing, distribution and network service both mean source under the same terms, separate programs reached over a socket (ACP CLIs, MCP servers, gws, OpenRouter) are not covered, contributions are inbound = outbound with no CLA, and the user's own recordings, transcripts and notes are theirs — the licence covers the program, never its output.
• THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md — an inventory of what is vendored, built at package time, linked, and downloaded at runtime, with each licence. Everything present is BSD, MIT, Apache-2.0, ISC or OFL, all one-way compatible into AGPL, so the combined work is distributable as is. Models are downloaded at runtime and are not distributed, so they keep their own publishers' terms.
• The licence travels with the binaries. make app now copies LICENSE and the notices into Next Notes.app/Contents/Resources/; Info.plist gains NSHumanReadableCopyright; the Windows assemblies are stamped PackageLicenseExpression = AGPL-3.0-or-later; site/package.json declares the same.
• The copyright holder is now consistent. windows/Directory.Build.props carried a template placeholder (Copyright © Pat Simmons) that was being stamped into every shipped Windows assembly. It now reads Copyright © 2026 Serge Kadjo, matching Info.plist, the README and the licence notices.
• AGENTS.md — a short Licence section: new files inherit the licence (no per-file headers), and new dependencies get checked against it before they land, with the notices file as the thing to update.

Verification

• LICENSE text confirmed identical across two mirrors after whitespace normalisation.
• site/package.json parses as JSON, Resources/Info.plist parses via plistlib, windows/Directory.Build.props parses as XML.
• make --dry-run app shows both new cp lines in the bundle recipe, in the right place.
• The Windows → Build, analyze & test workflow is green on the first commit — that is the check which compiles every assembly under warnings-as-errors with the strictest analyzers, so the Directory.Build.props changes are CI-validated.
• The macOS workflow does not fire on this branch: its path filter is Sources/**, Tests/**, shared/**, Package.swift, and nothing here touches those. It also only runs the dictionary contract test, never make app, so the bundle-packaging change has no CI coverage either way.
• No Swift, C# or TypeScript source was touched, so no build behaviour changes.

Not included

The app has no visible "Source code" link in About or Settings. For a downloadable binary the bundled LICENSE.txt satisfies the licence; that link matters the day any part of this runs as a network service (AGPL §13). Worth a follow-up, out of scope here.

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