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This software is proprietary. No licence to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
sublicense or sell it is granted by its being readable here, and no such licence should be
inferred from the absence of one.

THIS FILE DOES NOT DECIDE ANYTHING. It states the position that already applies to a work with
no licence, so that anyone reading the repository knows where they stand instead of guessing.
The real decision — proprietary with an end-user agreement, BSL 1.1, AGPL-3.0 with a commercial
exemption, or open core with a stated boundary — has not been made. See NOTICE.md for what each
option protects and why the question is now live rather than deferred.

Two things this file is NOT:

  * It is not an end-user licence agreement. Software that is sold needs terms covering
    warranty, liability, refunds and acceptable use, and those are a lawyer's work, not a
    README's.
  * It is not a statement about the components this project uses. Those have their own licences
    and their own consequences, several of which constrain what this product may become.
    NOTICE.md is the file that tracks them — in particular the GPLv3 plugin host, which is
    deliberately run as a separate program and must stay that way.

THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS

vst_worker.py is GPL-3.0-or-later and carries its own header. It is a separate program, executed
over a pipe, and is not linked into this software. It may be redistributed and modified under the
GNU General Public License version 3 or later; see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

All other components retain their own licences as recorded in NOTICE.md.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT.
