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TheJumpCloud / jcapi-python

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provide a software license #40

Open zaro0508 opened 4 years ago

zaro0508 commented 4 years ago

I see that you've provided a license for your jcapi repo. Would you mind providing a license for this repo as well?

QuingKhaos commented 3 years ago

Jumpcloud Team, please add a license!. If a repository has no license, then all rights are reserved and it is not Open Source or Free. You cannot modify or redistribute this code without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

We have license compliance checks in place and thus can't use libraries without explicit open source licenses. And the license scan happen already in the pull/merge request and deny it.

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