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Update project license to GPL-3 #101

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As of today, the project license is not perfectly clear (see #97 and #95 (comment)). This task is to clean this up.

The intended license from the start of the project has always been GPL-2, which is mostly because at the time, this was the most recent version of GPL, and we didn't trust the FSF enough to opt in to the auto-upgrade. Maybe that's paranoid, but as they say, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Now, while researching how to properly apply GPL-2 (as opposed to GPL-2+), we found that GPL-3 is really the better license for boxes, and we should upgrade to that. Richard Stallman explains the reasons why.

We expect that this change will have no impact on users.

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