docs: remove contributor license agreement

.github/pull_request_template.md

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ List the checks and visual/platform testing performed.
 
 ## Contribution and licensing
 
-- [ ] I have read and accept the [Flectar Contributor License Agreement](https://github.com/flectar/mail/blob/main/CLA.md) version 1.0 for this and future contributions submitted under that version.
 - [ ] I have the right to submit this work. If an employer or another entity owns it, I have obtained the required authorization.
 - [ ] I identified the source and license of every third-party dependency or asset added by this pull request.
 - [ ] I disclosed any material generative-tool assistance and reviewed its output for correctness, provenance, and licensing.

CLA.md

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-# Flectar Contributor License Agreement 1.0
-
-This Contributor License Agreement (“Agreement”) is between the person or
-entity accepting it (“You”) and Flectar, the steward of the Flectar Mail
-project (“Flectar”). It applies to every Contribution You intentionally submit
-to a Flectar-managed repository after accepting this Agreement.
-
-## 1. Definitions
-
-“Contribution” means any original work of authorship, including code,
-documentation, designs, tests, translations, or modifications, intentionally
-submitted by You for inclusion in the project. A submission marked in writing
-as “Not a Contribution” is excluded.
-
-“Submit” includes communication through a source-control system, pull request,
-issue tracker, code-review system, mailing list, or other channel Flectar uses
-to receive project contributions.
-
-## 2. Copyright license
-
-You grant Flectar and recipients of software distributed by Flectar a
-perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
-copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display,
-publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and derivative
-works of them as part of Flectar Mail under `AGPL-3.0-only`.
-
-You retain copyright ownership and may use and license Your Contributions
-independently. This Agreement does not authorize Flectar to publish an accepted
-client Contribution solely as proprietary software. A different license for a
-Contribution requires a separate agreement from its copyright holder.
-
-## 3. Patent license
-
-You grant Flectar and recipients of software distributed by Flectar a
-perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license to
-make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the
-Contribution. This grant applies only to patent claims You can license that are
-necessarily infringed by Your Contribution alone or by its combination with
-the project to which You submitted it.
-
-If You initiate patent litigation alleging that the project or a Contribution
-in it infringes a patent, patent licenses granted to You under this Agreement
-for that project terminate as of the filing date.
-
-## 4. Your assurances
-
-You represent that:
-
-- You are legally entitled to grant the licenses in this Agreement;
-- each Contribution is Your original creation, except for third-party material
-  that You clearly identify together with its source and license;
-- Your submission does not knowingly violate another person's copyright,
-  patent, trade secret, contract, privacy, or other rights;
-- if an employer or another entity may own the Contribution, You have received
-  permission to contribute it under this Agreement; and
-- You will notify Flectar if any of these statements later becomes inaccurate.
-
-Flectar may require an authorized representative of an employer or other owner
-to execute a separate corporate agreement before accepting the Contribution.
-
-## 5. No support or warranty
-
-You are not required to provide support for a Contribution. Unless separately
-agreed in writing, Contributions are provided “as is”, without warranties or
-conditions of any kind.
-
-## 6. Public record and personal information
-
-Flectar may retain and publish Your name, account identifier, contribution
-history, and acceptance record as reasonably necessary to administer project
-rights and provide attribution. Do not include private credentials, private
-mail, or unnecessary personal information in a Contribution.
-
-## 7. Acceptance and future versions
-
-You accept this Agreement by affirmatively checking the CLA acceptance box in
-a pull request and submitting that pull request. Flectar may also use a CLA
-service that records the same acceptance. The repository's contribution
-process identifies the version accepted.
-
-Flectar may publish a new CLA version for future Contributions. A new version
-does not apply retroactively unless You accept it. This Agreement is the entire
-agreement concerning the licenses granted for Contributions under it and may
-be amended for a particular Contribution only in a writing accepted by both
-You and Flectar.

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -11,19 +11,13 @@ and safe for a mail client that handles private user data.
 - Never submit real mailbox contents, credentials, OAuth tokens, signing
   material, or personal fixture data. Use reserved `.example` domains.
 
-## Contributor License Agreement
+## Contribution licensing
 
-Every contributor must accept the
-[`Flectar Contributor License Agreement`](CLA.md) before a pull request can be
-merged. Contributors retain copyright. The CLA permits Flectar to maintain the
-AGPL project and provides an explicit patent grant; it does not make accepted
-client contributions proprietary. This purpose is also described in
-[`LICENSING.md`](LICENSING.md).
-
-If an employer or another organization owns your work, an authorized
-representative must approve the contribution. A personal checkbox cannot grant
-rights owned by your employer. Maintainers may request a separate corporate
-agreement before review is completed.
+Contributions are licensed under the same license that applies to the files
+being changed, usually `AGPL-3.0-only`. Contributors retain copyright and must
+have the right to submit their work under that license. If an employer or
+another organization owns your work, obtain its authorization before
+contributing.
 
 ## Pull requests
 
@@ -59,5 +53,4 @@ Icon sources, generation and sizing are documented in
 
 Accepted contributions are published as part of Flectar Mail under
 `AGPL-3.0-only`, unless a file is explicitly identified as third-party material
-under another compatible license. The CLA does not remove the AGPL rights that
-recipients receive for published releases.
+under another compatible license.

LICENSING.md

@@ -39,12 +39,10 @@ own published scope, price, privacy terms, and service terms before launch.
 
 ## Contributions
 
-Outside contributions are accepted under the
-[`Flectar Contributor License Agreement`](CLA.md). Contributors retain
-copyright, and accepted contributions are published as part of Flectar Mail
-under `AGPL-3.0-only`. The agreement does not create a proprietary client
-edition or remove recipients' AGPL rights. See
-[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the acceptance process.
+Outside contributions are accepted under the license that applies to the files
+being changed, usually `AGPL-3.0-only`. Contributors retain copyright and must
+have the right to submit their work under that license. See
+[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the contribution process.
 
 ## Trademarks