docs: state the contributor-license policy (issues yes, code no) - #70
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The repo had no contributor-license policy, so the default inbound = outbound applied: a merged outside patch would leave its author holding copyright on those lines, and the project could never change its own licensing terms again without tracking every past contributor down. This mirrors the policy already in force in felitronics-core.
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…xist The policy sends a would-be contributor to an issue without saying what to put in it; a pasted patch carries the same copyright question in through the side door. And third-party dependencies were said to be recorded "with the project's notices" — this repo fetches minimp3 and nlohmann/json but keeps no such file, so the sentence promised a record that is not there.
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This repo had no contributor-license policy, so the default inbound = outbound applied: a single merged outside patch would leave its author holding copyright on those lines permanently, and the project could never change its own licensing terms again — dual-licensing, granting an exception, or shipping the code inside something else — without tracking every past contributor down.
Adopts the policy already in force in felitronics-core: issues and ideas welcome and credited, code PRs closed unmerged, reasoning stated in the file. No code, build or licence change.