Specs: when the source goes out, and who owes the offer

AGPL section 13 starts at the cutover, not at the announcement: the fork is a modified AGPL program and its users reach it over a network. Settled today that the source is released after the cutover, with the links live then, and in the meantime the server's users are the operator's household, so the people owed an offer and the people holding the repository are the same people. Anyone migrating their own server inherits that obligation on their first day and has no such overlap, so the migration tool says so at the end of a successful run instead of leaving it to be discovered.
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 long will this take, and will it work" without touching the running server,
 and it is what the operator should run first.

+## What the operator inherits
+
+INBUXA is AGPL, and a migrated server is one its users reach over a network,
+so from its first day its operator owes those users an offer of the
+Corresponding Source (AGPL section 13). The tool should say so once, at the
+end of a successful migration, rather than leaving an obligation to be
+discovered. It is satisfied by a link, and INBUXA's own is published.
+
 ## Open

 - Where it lives: a command in ihasmail-oneshot, a sibling to