From cb29ab26b51e5bcd0186ac1ccf8cc567c76be56c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karan Gathani <karan.gathani@posit.co>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:49:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Migrate license to MIT

---
 .Rbuildignore |  1 +
 DESCRIPTION   |  2 +-
 LICENSE       |  2 ++
 LICENSE.md    | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 LICENSE
 create mode 100644 LICENSE.md

diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 08e39f5..8f0ba25 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@
 ^configure.log$
 ^revdep$
 ^pkgdown$
+^LICENSE\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 04dedde..bbcfa86 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Micael", "Hildenborg", role = c("ctb", "cph"), comment = "SHA1 library"),
     person(family = "Aladdin Enterprises", role = "cph", comment = "MD5 library"),
     person("Bjoern", "Hoehrmann", role = c("ctb", "cph"), comment = "UTF8 Validation library"))
-License: GPL-2
+License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 ByteCompile: true
 Imports:
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9025de2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+YEAR: 2025
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: websocket authors
diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28d61df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2025 websocket authors
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

From d7b65e253056d5b084d5a8ff0429a9abfb00485a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karan Gathani <karan.gathani@posit.co>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:52:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update NEWS.md

---
 NEWS.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6dd868d..f29a3b6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # websocket (development version)
 
+* Migrate license from GPL-2 to MIT. (#122)
+
 # websocket 1.4.4
 
 * Silences inaccurate deprecation warnings from certain C++ compilers. (#116)