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More explanation for each licence
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# Licenses
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# Licences
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This directory documents the licenses applying to the LumoSQL project.
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This directory documents the licences applying to the LumoSQL project.
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All files in this project should in addition have a [Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev)
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machine-readable header.
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# MIT License
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# MIT Licence
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The [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) applies to code in this project.
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The [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) applies to code in
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this project. The MIT licence is probably the most-widely used Open Source
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licence, including by some of the world's largest companies. The MIT licence
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grants everyone the right to use the code for any purpose under copyright law.
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# Creative Commons License
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# Creative Commons Licencse
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The [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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license applies to documentation in this project.
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licence applies to documentation in this project and in the companion
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[LumoSQL documentation project](https://lumosql.org/lumodoc). Code and documentation are very
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different, which is why specific licences have been developed for them.

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