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What does this PR aim to accomplish?:

provide clarity about the licensing of PADD
I'm going with EUPL 1.2, as the rest of Pi-hole uses it.

How does this PR accomplish the above?:

Adds a LICENSE, in similar style as core, FTL and web
Adds the license header, similar to core and FTL.

Technically, when PADD had no LICENSE file it counts as "All rights reserved".
Therefore, this is considered a re-license and needs approval from all contributors.

Fron git commit metadata:

$ git shortlog -s -n -e
   168  Christian König <ckoenig@posteo.de>
   141  yubiuser <ckoenig@posteo.de>
   108  yubiuser <github@yubiuser.dev>
    59  Jim McKenna <jim@jpmck.com>
    38  dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
    25  DL6ER <dl6er@dl6er.de>
    23  Timothy Johnstone <timothy.g.johnstone@gmail.com>
    19  RD WebDesign <github@rdwebdesign.com.br>
    14  Dan Schaper <dan.schaper@pi-hole.net>
    13  Adam Warner <me@adamwarner.co.uk>
     8  Subhaditya Nath <sn03.general@gmail.com>
     7  darkexplosiveqwx <101737077+darkexplosiveqwx@users.noreply.github.com>
     6  DL6ER <DL6ER@users.noreply.github.com>
     6  Michael Woolweaver <michael@woolweaver.bid>
     6  thomasmerz <thomasmerz@users.noreply.github.com>
     5  Christian Boyle <mail@christianboyle.com>
     4  KnownAim <kevorkterterian@gmail.com>
     4  Thomas Merz <git@rhoenwurz.de>
     4  fullburnen <fullburnen@protonmail.com>
     4  pintomax <massimiliano.pinto@gmail.com>
     4  pralor-bot <pralor-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
     3  Dominik <DL6ER@users.noreply.github.com>
     3  Peter Galantha <peter.galantha@gmail.com>
     2  Christian Boyle <christianboyle@users.noreply.github.com>
     2  Kerdic <jimmy.baldwin@gmail.com>
     1  Aaron Tiensivu <atiensivu@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  Adam Warner <github@adamwarner.co.uk>
     1  Anthony <m600x@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  Blumlaut <13604413+Blumlaut@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  Bucking-Horn <buckhorn@weibsvolk.org>
     1  Collin O'Connor <collin.d.oconnor@gmail.com>
     1  FauFra <frasca.fausto@gmail.com>
     1  Lenoard Lee <sheeeng@gmail.com>
     1  Richard Kuhnt <r15ch13+git@gmail.com>
     1  Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
     1  Subhaditya Nath <56714626+subnut@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  Tom Morgan <tom472@gmail.com>
     1  XhmikosR <xhmikosr@gmail.com>
     1  Zack Kitzmiller <zackkitzmiller@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  danmurry <44685332+danmurry@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  darkexplosiveqwx <the.qwx.channel@gmail.com>
     1  fullburnen <70560944+fullburnen@users.noreply.github.com>
     1  strangelookingnerd <49242855+strangelookingnerd@users.noreply.github.com>
$ git log | grep -i "Co-authored-by" | sort -u
    Co-authored-by: Adam Warner <github@adamwarner.co.uk>
    Co-authored-by: Adam Warner <me@adamwarner.co.uk>
    Co-authored-by: Dan Schaper <dan.schaper@pi-hole.net>
    Co-authored-by: DL6ER <DL6ER@users.noreply.github.com>
    Co-authored-by: k-rister <k-rister@users.noreply.github.com>
    Co-authored-by: RD WebDesign <github@rdwebdesign.com.br>
    Co-authored-by: Scott Smith <scottsm@mac.com>
    Co-authored-by: yubiuser <ckoenig@posteo.de>
    Co-authored-by: yubiuser <github@yubiuser.dev>

I think it would be good to have as many contributors as possible agree to this change and possibly mention the ones not explicitly agreeing in LICENSE (similar as it has been done with core and web)

Should I go ahead and ping everyone's GitHub for this?


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@darkexplosiveqwx darkexplosiveqwx requested a review from a team as a code owner May 3, 2026 19:39
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I think we should leave this open for a couple weeks to give contributors some time to explicitly approve or deny the re-license.

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