docs(license): flag the earlier copyright-registration deadline
If the July and August 2026 pushes of the 1.1 code to the public Gitea count as publication, the three-month window for statutory damages and fees closes around 29 October to 1 November 2026, not January 2027. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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US$65), and exclude AI-generated material that is more than trivial.
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Registration is needed to sue and to keep a takedown in place after a
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counter-notice. Statutory damages and fees also depend on registering within
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three months of publication. 1.2 and 1.3 were published on 18 and 19 October
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2026, so that window closes around 18 January 2027.
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three months of first publication.
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- 1.2 and 1.3 reached AMO on 18 and 19 October 2026, so their window runs to
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about 18 January 2027.
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- The 1.1 code was pushed to the public Gitea in July and August 2026. If
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those pushes count as publication, its window closes around 29 October to
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1 November 2026. The old license's copy ban suggests they didn't, but that
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reading is low confidence.
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- So file by late October 2026 to be safe, and have an IP attorney confirm.
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- **Replace the Chrome repository's `LICENSE.txt`.** It still carries the old
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EULA and the public@zavage.net contact.
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- **Report clones** through Mozilla's infringement form or
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