Update licenses

[fthobe]

Summary

Related to previous conversations in PR #5948.
Copyright lists alphabetically the major contributors, points for generic contributions to the git commit list.

Some open issues:

• is the logo currently protected?
• is the brand "Solidus" currently protected?
• I also added inter

Fixes #5947

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[fthobe]

@tvdeyen could you also look here

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[tvdeyen]

Thanks

[fthobe]

@tvdeyen I think I found all boilerplate licenses, please merge this.

[tvdeyen]

@fthobe I found that we have individual LICENSE files in most of the gems

• admin
• api
• backend
• core
• legacy_promotions
• promotions
• sample

The LICENSE file in the root folder is not part of the bundled solidus gem.

How to we handle this? My guess is that we need to update all individual licenses, because people are able to install just solidus_api and the license should still be available in the shipped gem package, right? Not sure how other mono-repos handles this.

[tvdeyen]

@fthobe please use rebase to update this branch with main (and not merge), thanks 🙏🏻

[fthobe]

@fthobe I found that we have individual LICENSE files in most of the gems

• admin

• api

• backend

• core

• legacy_promotions

• promotions

• sample

The LICENSE file in the root folder is not part of the bundled solidus gem.

How to we handle this? My guess is that we need to update all individual licenses, because people are able to install just solidus_api and the license should still be available in the shipped gem package, right? Not sure how other mono-repos handles this.

So there are various approaches to that:

• we should as first step harmonise what can be harmonised: where licenses are identical we should refer to the parent license
• additional licenses in subfolders are perfectly fine but we should add at least a reference from parent folder more for clarity than hard legal requirements

Keep in mind that a referral to a valid license is as good as a valid license in most jurisdictions (actually Germany is a notable exception where there are for years final decisions pending if a license is valid if it can not be reviewed during the moment of purchase / acquisition of the software).