Docs: say plainly that only the bot is open source; the dashboard and API are proprietary

- README, license section and architecture no longer point to the dashboard repositories
- schema.sql is the schema for contributors; database changes only need schema.sql and a note in the PR
- self-hosting: settings without a dashboard (SQL for security thresholds, beta settings, opted-in servers)
- beta features, deployment and troubleshooting reworded for people who don't have the dashboard

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>

README.md

@@ -2,12 +2,9 @@
 
 Velox is a Discord bot written in Go, backed by PostgreSQL. It covers server security (anti-raid and anti-nuke), support tickets, moderation, leveling, music, meeting rooms, scheduling, Twitch alerts and a few games. Every module is off until a server turns it on.
 
-This repository is the bot. It has two companions that live in their own repositories:
+**This repository is the bot, and it is the only open source part of Velox.** The web dashboard and its API, which the hosted Velox uses, are separate proprietary software and are not part of this repository or its license. The bot does not need them: everything in the [command reference](docs/commands.md) works on its own, with PostgreSQL as its only dependency.
 
-- **velox-dashboard-api**: a Go REST API behind the web dashboard. It owns most of the database schema and runs the migrations.
-- **velox-dashboard-web**: the Vue dashboard and public website.
-
-The bot and the API share one PostgreSQL database. They never call each other over HTTP. The dashboard writes settings and requests into tables, and the bot reads them (and is woken through Postgres `NOTIFY` where it has to react at once). See [Architecture](docs/architecture.md).
+The dashboard and the bot meet in the database. The dashboard writes settings and requests into tables, and the bot reads them (and is woken through Postgres `NOTIFY` where it has to react at once). Those tables are documented, so you can change the same settings with SQL, or build your own tool on top. See [Architecture](docs/architecture.md) and [Database](docs/database.md).
 
 ## Documentation
 
@@ -18,7 +15,7 @@ This README is the front page. The rest of the documentation lives in [`docs/`](
 | [Getting started](docs/getting-started.md) | Requirements, creating the Discord application, configuration, database, running locally |
 | [Host your own bot](docs/self-hosting.md) | A step-by-step guide to running your own copy on a server, with Docker Compose |
 | [Deployment](docs/deployment.md) | Docker, Compose, upgrade order, backups |
-| [Architecture](docs/architecture.md) | How the code is laid out, how an interaction flows through it, background loops, the link to the dashboard |
+| [Architecture](docs/architecture.md) | How the code is laid out, how an interaction flows through it, background loops, how a dashboard talks to the bot |
 | [Features](docs/features.md) | What each module does and how it behaves |
 | [Command reference](docs/commands.md) | Every slash command, its options and who may run it |
 | [Database](docs/database.md) | Who owns the schema, the tables, the `NOTIFY` channels, how to change them |
@@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ On start the bot registers its slash commands in the server named by `GUILD_ID`
 - **Tickets**: a panel with categories, a private thread per ticket, claim and close, transcripts to a log channel.
 - **Moderation**: purge, timeout, kick, ban, unban, slowmode, plus server logs for edits, deletes, joins, leaves, role changes, bans and mod actions.
 - **Leveling**: XP per message, level cards, leaderboard, role rewards.
-- **Music**: Lavalink-powered playback with a queue, controlled from Discord or the dashboard.
+- **Music**: Lavalink-powered playback with a queue, controlled from Discord.
 - **Meeting rooms**: join a lobby voice channel and get a temporary room you can lock and invite people to.
 - **Scheduling and projects**: 1:1 sessions with DM invites and reminders, and a simple project list.
 - **Twitch alerts, welcome messages, default role**: per-server setup through `/config`.
@@ -87,4 +84,4 @@ Contributions are welcome: bug reports, fixes, documentation and new features.
 
 ## License
 
-Velox Bot is released under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE). Copyright 2026 Fernando Videira. See [NOTICE](NOTICE). The libraries it uses are under their own permissive licenses (see `go.mod`).
+Velox Bot, the code in this repository, is released under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE). Copyright 2026 Fernando Videira. See [NOTICE](NOTICE). The license does not cover the proprietary Velox dashboard and API, or the Velox name and logo as used by the hosted service. The libraries the bot uses are under their own permissive licenses (see `go.mod`).