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Dual-license mempool under both the GNU AGPLv3 and GNU GPLv3 licenses

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A few weeks ago in #388, we changed the license for the mempool project
from MIT+CC to AGPLv3. This was generally met with very positive
feedback from the Bitcoin community. However, a few very large
enterprise organizations that love the mempool project are now no longer
able to use our code, since apparently some enterprise organizations
have an internal policy of not using AGPL licensed software.

Since the AGPLv3 license is compatible with the GPLv3 license in various
ways, adding the GPLv3 as an alternative second license for the project
seems like a reasonable way to retain most of the copyleft properties of
our current AGPLv3 license, while also keeping the community happy and
allowing them GPLv3 as another choice if they are prohibited from using
the AGPL internally.

Therefore, I propose to add GPLv3 as an alternative license for the
mempool open source project in this PR. If you are okay with this,
please ACK with "I hereby re-license my contributions to the mempool
open source project under both the GNU AGPLv3 and GPLv3 licenses"

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The Mempool Open Source Project
Copyright (c) 2019-2021 The Mempool Open Source Project Developers
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of (at your option) either:
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public
License for more details.
1) the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License or any later version approved by a
proxy statement published on <https://mempool.space/about>; or
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License or any later version approved by a
proxy statement published on <https://mempool.space/about>.
However, these licenses do not grant you any rights to use the "mempool.space"
trademarks or logos, or any other trademarks of Mempool Space K.K.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the full license terms for more details.
You should have received a copy of both the GNU Affero General Public License
and the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.