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 Sure, why not. It can't get much worse.
 
-## Copyright
+## License
 
-To the extent possible under law, all copyright in this repository is
-waived and dedicated to the **public domain**. Do whatever you want with it.
-The AI certainly didn't care about ownership when it scraped half the
-internet to produce this.
+GPLv3. Yes, the AI slop is copylefted now. [caelestia-dots/shell](https://github.com/caelestia-dots/shell)
+provided architectural inspiration, which the robot then faithfully mangled into this. If you
+improve it, the license requires you to share those improvements — a higher standard of
+accountability than the author has held themselves to.