clarify license wording #412
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This text historically was copied verbatim from rust-lang/rust's own README [1] with the intention of licensing projects the same as rustc's own license, namely a dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license. The clause about "various BSD-like licenses" isn't actually correct for almost all projects other than rust-lang/rust and the wording around "both" was slightly ambiguous. This commit updates the wording to match more precisely what's in the standard library [2], namely clarifying that there aren't any BSD-like licenses in this repository and that the source is licensable under either license, at your own discretion.[3] Fixes #411 [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/f0fe716dbcbf2363ab8f929325d32a17e51039d0#license [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/f0fe716dbcbf2363ab8f929325d32a17e51039d0/src/libstd/lib.rs#L5-L9 [3]: rust-lang/flate2-rs@baf6668
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This text historically was copied verbatim from rust-lang/rust's own
README 1 with the intention of licensing projects the same as rustc's
own license, namely a dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license. The clause about
"various BSD-like licenses" isn't actually correct for almost all
projects other than rust-lang/rust and the wording around "both" was
slightly ambiguous.
This commit updates the wording to match more precisely what's in the
standard library 2, namely clarifying that there aren't any BSD-like
licenses in this repository and that the source is licensable under
either license, at your own discretion.3
Fixes #411