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| 1 | +# Licensing |
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| -<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 The LumoSQL Authors --> |
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| -# Licences |
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| -This directory documents all the licences applying to all material in the LumoSQL project. |
| 3 | +This directory contains the licence which applies to all material in the LumoSQL project. |
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13 | 5 | # MIT Licence
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| -The [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) applies to all code in |
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| -this project. The MIT licence is the most-widely used Open Source |
| 7 | +The [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) applies to all |
| 8 | +files in this project. The MIT licence is the most-widely used Open Source |
17 | 9 | 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. Every |
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| -file containing code should have a copyright statement at the top and also a |
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| -[Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev) machine-readable header, but even |
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| -if it doesn't, the MIT licence still applies. |
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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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| -licence applies, where indicated by a copyright claim at the top, to the relatively small amount of |
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| -documentation in the LumoSQL project which is not within source code files. |
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| -The full LumoSQL documentation can be found elsewhere at the |
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| -[LumoSQL documentation project](https://lumosql.org/lumodoc). |
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| 10 | +grants everyone the right to use the code for any purpose under copyright law. |
| 11 | +Every file should have a copyright statement at the top and also a |
| 12 | +[Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev) machine-readable header, but even if |
| 13 | +it doesn't, the MIT licence still applies. It also applies to any file which is |
| 14 | +not clearly code, such as configuration or input data. |
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| 16 | +There are a few documentation files in the LumoSQL project tree, including this |
| 17 | +README. These are also covered by the MIT license, to avoid any misunderstanding. |
| 18 | +Virtually all of the LumoSQL documentation can be found at the |
| 19 | +[LumoSQL Documentation Project](https://lumosql.org/src/lumodoc). |
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