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legal: relicense from MIT to Business Source License 1.1

Switches from a fully permissive license to BSL 1.1 (the same family
Outline's own server uses, for the same underlying reason): personal
use, self-hosting, and non-commercial forks stay explicitly allowed,
but shipping a competing hosted/distributed product off this code, or
distributing a fork under branding that claims official/affiliated
status, now requires a separate commercial agreement. Converts
automatically to Apache License 2.0 on the change date in LICENSE.

Adds an explicit trademark notice for the "Outpost" name/logo,
independent of the code license — the specific thing this was meant to
close off (a fork getting relabeled as an official/endorsed product).

README gets a plain-English summary of what changed; CONTRIBUTING gets
a one-line note that PRs are contributed under the same terms.

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Contributing to Outpost

Thank you for contributing. Please read this guide before opening issues or PRs.

Outpost is early alpha (0.0.x) — expect the codebase and conventions here to shift as Phase 1 (see docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) settles. If something in this guide is stale, flag it.

Branching

Branch from main using type/short-description:

git checkout -b feature/document-permissions
git checkout -b fix/sidebar-context-menu

Commit Messages

Follow the Conventional Commits standard: type(scope): message.

Type	Description
`feat`	New feature
`fix`	Bug fix
`docs`	Documentation
`style`	Formatting
`refactor`	Refactor
`perf`	Performance
`test`	Tests
`build`	Build system
`ci`	CI/CD config
`chore`	Maintenance

Examples:

feat(collections): add document right-click context menu
fix(reader): correct off-main AppKit calls in save action

Pull Requests

Link the related issue in your PR description, if any
Keep PRs focused — one feature or fix per PR
Self-review before requesting review
Run the tests that apply to what you touched (see below) and confirm the app still launches and behaves correctly in Xcode

Testing

OutlineKit (the REST client package) has real unit test coverage:
```
cd OutlineKit && swift test
```
The Outpost app target has no meaningful CLI build path — xcodebuild from the command line is not a reliable way to verify it in this project's current setup. Build and run through Xcode, and manually verify the feature you changed (and anything obviously adjacent) before opening a PR.

Labels

Issues and PRs use two label prefixes:

type: — what kind of change/issue this is (type: bug, type: docs, type: security, ...)
priority: — how urgent it is (used mainly for security reports)

Questions

Open an issue — this is a single-repo project, there's no separate issue tracker to route to.

License

Outpost is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1, not a traditional OSI open-source license — see the README's License section for what that means in practice. By submitting a PR, you agree your contribution is licensed under the same terms as the rest of the project.

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