Make the AGPL's source offer point at the source being run
Three things a licence audit turned up. None of them is a conflict -- every one of the 182 installed packages is permissive, and the relicence was within the copyright holder's gift -- but all three are ways the AGPL fails to stick. The offer was hard-coded to this repository. Section 13 asks whoever runs a modified version to offer *that* version's source, so every deployment with a patch in it was pointing at the wrong tree, and would have gone on doing so unless its operator noticed and edited the About page. SOURCE_URL now sets it, alongside APP_NAME, and both the sign-in page and About read it. The offer was also only visible after signing in. Whoever is looking at the sign-in form is interacting with the program over a network too, so the footer carries it now. And the two workspace packages declared no licence at all. Private, so npm never minded, but anything reading the tree saw a blank where the rest of the project says AGPL-3.0-or-later. Checked both ways round: with SOURCE_URL set to a fork, the sign-in page and About both point at the fork; with it unset, both fall back to this repository.
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@@ -233,3 +233,8 @@ nearly always run as a network service rather than handed to anyone as a
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binary, and the AGPL's section 13 closes that gap: anyone running a modified
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ihasmail for other people has to offer them its source, which the GPL alone
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does not require.
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That offer has to point at *your* source, not this one. If you run a modified
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ihasmail, set `SOURCE_URL` to your own repository: the sign-in page and
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Settings › About both show it, so the people using your instance are told where
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the code they are actually running can be found.
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