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diff --git a/licenses/README.md b/licenses/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b662a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/licenses/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Open Source Licenses + +## Overview + +The licenses in this directory are taken from [SPDX](https://spdx.org/licenses). + +## Naming Convention + +The name of the file is the same as the identifier on the SPDX website with an +extension of `.txt`. For instance, the "Academic Free License v1.1" license +would be in a file called `AFL-1.1.txt`. + +### Special variants + +Some licenses have special variants. E.g, the Apache-2.0 license has optional +sections in it. And some licenses, like GPL-3.0, have a short "header" variant +that's included in source files. The full text of the license and each of its +special variants will be mapped to the same license. (Though the "header" form +shouldn't be used in `LICENSE` files.) + +#### Header Variants + +The name of a license header variant is `<identifier>.header.txt`. So the +GPL-3.0 header variant would be named: `GPL-3.0.header.txt`. + +#### Optional Text Variants + +TBD |