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Licensing

Canonical licensing notes for Millennium Helpers and the Millennium client these tools install. Keep this page, the README License section, man-page LICENSE sections, and third_party/ in sync — make check-docs enforces the cross-links (see also the docs index).

Artifact What it covers
LICENSE Millennium Helpers (this repo) — MIT, Copyright © bolens
third_party/MILLENNIUM-LICENSE.md Vendored copy of the Millennium client MIT notice
Upstream LICENSE.md Source of truth for Project Millennium’s license text
third_party/README.md Why vendored third-party notices live here

Summary

  • Helpers (scripts, packaging recipes, MCP server, docs in this repo) are MIT — see LICENSE. User-facing overview: README § License.
  • Millennium (the Steam Client homebrew framework from SteamClientHomebrew/Millennium) is a separate project, also MIT-licensed by Project Millennium. Installing or upgrading it via these helpers is subject to Millennium’s terms.
  • This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by SteamClientHomebrew, Project Millennium, or Valve Corporation. Steam® is a trademark of Valve Corporation.

On install / upgrade

millennium upgrade (Linux and Windows; see also millennium-upgrade(1)) places a copy of Millennium’s MIT notice as LICENSE next to the installed client binaries. That satisfies MIT’s requirement to include the copyright and permission notice with redistributed copies. Release packages for Millennium itself do not always ship a license file inside the archive; helpers supply the vendored text (or fetch upstream, or use an embedded fallback).

Implementation: Go InstallLicense in go/internal/upgrade (see that package for the client-side LICENSE placement). The vendored helpers copy (third_party/MILLENNIUM-LICENSE.md) is installed beside the helpers (e.g. /usr/lib/millennium-helpers/MILLENNIUM-LICENSE.md) via millennium install, Homebrew, Nix, Arch PKGBUILDs, and the Windows installer.

Docs & man pages

Surface Role
README § License Short user-facing summary
man millennium(1), man millennium-upgrade(1), … Per-command LICENSE sections (all point here)
CONTRIBUTING.md Maintainer rules for keeping attribution in sync
SECURITY.md Security policy (links here for legal boundary)
Winget locale descriptions Brief Millennium MIT attribution for store listings

Related docs

Keeping this in sync

When changing license text, attribution, or how upgrade installs notices:

  1. Update upstream-facing links and the vendored file (third_party/MILLENNIUM-LICENSE.md).
  2. Update this page and README § License.
  3. Confirm man-page LICENSE sections still reference this doc.
  4. Run make check-docs (also part of make lint / make check-all).