Add an English translation of the licence, keeping Portuguese authoritative - #8
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…tative The repository is public and everything else is in English now, so the one file a stranger is most likely to open was the only one they could not read. Translated rather than replaced, deliberately. This licence invokes Brazilian Federal Law No. 9,610/1998 and Brazil is where it would actually be enforced; moving the operative text into a language that is not the jurisdiction's buys nothing and could cost something. So the English comes first, for whoever lands on the repo, and the Portuguese follows as the original, with an explicit clause that it prevails on any divergence. It stays PROPRIETARY - that was a deliberate choice, and it preserves the option of commercialising the DIY box. This is a translation, not a change of terms: every clause maps one to one onto the original. Closes #6. Evidence: no code touched; the 124 tests are unaffected. Not validated: I am not a lawyer, and the translation is faithful rather than legally reviewed - which is exactly why the Portuguese is the version that prevails.
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Closes #6.
The repository is public and everything else is in English, so the one file a
stranger is most likely to open was the only one they could not read.
Translated, not replaced. The licence invokes Brazilian Federal Law
No. 9,610/1998, and Brazil is where it would actually be enforced — moving the
operative text into a language that is not the jurisdiction's buys nothing and
could cost something. English comes first for whoever lands on the repo;
Portuguese follows as the original, with an explicit clause that it prevails on
any divergence.
It stays proprietary. That was deliberate and it preserves the option of
commercialising the DIY box. Every clause maps one to one onto the original —
this is a translation, not a change of terms.
Not a lawyer; the translation is faithful rather than legally reviewed, which is
precisely why the Portuguese remains authoritative.
No code touched.