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Correct sonpy license wording (GPLv3, not proprietary) - #3
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sonpy's bundled license.txt shows it is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (CED, 2020), not a proprietary EULA as the docs claimed. Update the README, pyproject, package docstrings, MATLAB Contents, workflow comments, and tests accordingly. Clarify that sonpipe itself is MIT and keeps sonpy as an unbundled runtime dependency so its MIT distribution stays free of GPL copyleft; GPL places no restrictions on use, only redistribution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VTQEJGfiSxeVG1J5GSmaTy
…blished) Avoid implying the underlying SON64 C source is open; clarify that sonpy is GPLv3-licensed but shipped by CED as prebuilt binaries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VTQEJGfiSxeVG1J5GSmaTy
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What
The docs described CED's
sonpyas "proprietary" software installed "to comply with CED's strict proprietary license." That's inaccurate:sonpy's bundledlicense.txtstates it is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (Cambridge Electronic Design Ltd., 2020) — free software, not a proprietary EULA. This corrects every occurrence.Why it matters
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Wording-only corrections (no behavior change) in:
README.md(intro, "Licensing via pip",sonpylicense note, License section)pyproject.tomldependency notesrc/sonpipe/__init__.py,src/sonpipe/sonfile.pydocstrings and the missing-sonpy error messagematlab/+sonpipe/Contents.mAll tests still pass (41 passed, 5 integration skipped locally).
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