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Merge pull request #954 from 0xc0170/license_md
license: add extension to LICENSE file
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docs/reference/contributing/guidelines/license.md

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In order to clearly reflect the Apache 2.0 license, please create two text files:
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- A *LICENSE* file with the following text:
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- A *LICENSE.md* file with the following text:
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Unless specifically indicated otherwise in a file, files are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license,
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In order to clearly reflect the PBL license, please create three text files:
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- A *LICENSE* file with:
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- A *LICENSE.md* file with:
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<pre>Unless specifically indicated otherwise in a file, files are licensed under the Permissive Binary License,
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as can be found in: LICENSE-permissive-binary-license-1.0.txt</pre>
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If you decide to use a different license for your work, follow the same pattern:
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- Create a *LICENSE* file with a description of the license situation, following the pattern described in the sections above.
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- Create a *LICENSE.md* file with a description of the license situation, following the pattern described in the sections above.
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- Put the full original license texts in separate documents named *LICENSE-XYZ.txt*, where XYZ is the corresponding [SPDX identifier](http://spdx.org/licenses/) for your license.
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- Begin each source header with your copyright line, the SPDX identifier and the standard header for the license that applies to that single file, if it has one. (See [SPDX Specification, Appendix V](https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.twlc0ztnng3b).)
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- If more than one license applies to the source file, then use an SPDX license expression (see [SPDX Specification, Appendix IV](https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.jxpfx0ykyb60)), to reflect the presence of multiple licenses in your *LICENSE* file and in each source file.
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- If more than one license applies to the source file, then use an SPDX license expression (see [SPDX Specification, Appendix IV](https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.jxpfx0ykyb60)), to reflect the presence of multiple licenses in your *LICENSE.md* file and in each source file.
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### Contributing to the Mbed OS codebase
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