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# Open Source Licenses
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## Overview
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The licenses in this directory are taken from [SPDX](https://spdx.org/licenses).
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## Naming Convention
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The name of the file is the same as the identifier on the SPDX website with an
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extension of `.txt`. For instance, the "Academic Free License v1.1" license
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would be in a file called `AFL-1.1.txt`.
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### Special variants
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Some licenses have special variants. E.g, the Apache-2.0 license has optional
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sections in it. And some licenses, like GPL-3.0, have a short "header" variant
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that's included in source files. The full text of the license and each of its
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special variants will be mapped to the same license. (Though the "header" form
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shouldn't be used in `LICENSE` files.)
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#### Header Variants
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The name of a license header variant is `<identifier>.header.txt`. So the
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GPL-3.0 header variant would be named: `GPL-3.0.header.txt`.
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#### Optional Text Variants
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TBD
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