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Re: a LICENSE file does not necessarily apply to everything in a repo


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: a LICENSE file does not necessarily apply to everything in a repo
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:44:33 -0400

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  > just as a side note, i do not believe that is quite correct -
  > people do conventionally assume that is the case; but the
  > licenses themselves do not justify that assumption

You are right.  To make a license cover some files F and G, in an
indubitable way, something has to say explicitly that "license L
covers files F and G."

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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