chore: update licensing to Apache 2.0 for new contributions #1851
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Do all SDKs need to follow the same license? |
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| Contributions for which relicensing consent has been obtained are licensed under Apache-2.0. Contributions made by authors who originally licensed their work under the MIT License and who have not yet granted explicit permission to relicense remain licensed under the MIT License. | ||
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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