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Corrected typos in the README and fixed spacing. Signed-off-by: Candice Wright <5489711+capfei@users.noreply.github.com>
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LicenseDB is a free and open database of mostly all the software licenses, in
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particular all the open-source software licenses, with over 2000 curated licenses
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particular all the open source software licenses, with over 2000 curated licenses
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LicenseDB is built from the ScanCode Toolkit license dataset. ScanCode Toolkit
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LicenseDB is an essential reference license resource for license compliance and
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SBOMs. LicenseDB includes all the SPDX and OSI licenses together with an extended
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curated collection of other licenses and license metadata. These licenses are
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carefully reviewed and curated and continusouly updated by an open community of
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carefully reviewed and curated and continuously updated by an open community of
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LicenseDB is available as a web site, an JSON or YAML API and a git repository
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LicenseDB is available as a web site, a JSON or YAML API and a git repository
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making it easy to reuse and integrate in tools that need a database of reference
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software licenses.
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- has a License Name
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- has a a web page dedicated to the license, or is contained in a source file
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- has a web page dedicated to the license, or is contained in a source file
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The web site is published at: https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/
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You can search the licenses by name, key and other attributes.
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This is updated daily by a GitHub action with updates from scancode-toolkit
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This index and the static website is also available offline with ScanCode Toolkit as a
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This index and the static website are also available offline with ScanCode Toolkit as a
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This git repository contains the original and editable source files:
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https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit
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https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
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- for the text of a license and the metadata of a license as YAML frontmatter, for instance at
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https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit/tree/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/gpl-2.0.LICENSE
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Support
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- Chat with us at: https://gitter.im/aboutcode-org/discuss
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- Report issues or ask questions at: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit/issues and
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- Report issues or ask questions at: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues and
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- Visit https://www.aboutcode.org/ for more open source and open data projects.
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Copyright (c) nexB Inc. and others.
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ScanCode LicenseDB software is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0.
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You may obtain a copy of the License at: https://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
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ScanCode Toolkit is a free Software Composition Analysis tool from nexB Inc. and
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Visit https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolit for support and download.
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Visit https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit for support and download.

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