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1 | 1 | # Licences
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| -This directory documents the licences applying to the LumoSQL project. |
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| -All significant files in this project should in addition have a [Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev) machine-readable header. |
| 3 | +This directory documents all the licences applying to all material in the LumoSQL project. |
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7 | 5 | # MIT Licence
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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 |
| 7 | +The [MIT License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) applies to all code in |
| 8 | +this project. The MIT licence is the most-widely used Open Source |
11 | 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. |
| 10 | +grants everyone the right to use the code for any purpose under copyright law. Every |
| 11 | +file should have a [Software Package Data Exchange](https://spdx.dev) machine-readable header, |
| 12 | +but even if it doesn't, the MIT licence still applies. |
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14 | 14 | # Creative Commons Licencse
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16 | 16 | The [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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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. |
| 17 | +licence applies, where indicated by a copyright claim at the top, to the relatively small amount of |
| 18 | +documentation in the LumoSQL project which is not within source code files. |
| 19 | +The full LumoSQL documentation can be found elsewhere at the |
| 20 | +[LumoSQL documentation project](https://lumosql.org/lumodoc). |
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