This collection supplies reusable reference texts for repositories adopting the Open Source Licensing And Attribution Policy. Copy the texts your incorporated code, documentation, or assets use into your repository's docs/oss/licenses/, together with applicable companion texts. Select the texts applicable to incorporated material.

These files are reference material. Each project's grant is stated in COPYRIGHT; each component's grant is identified in its attribution entry.

Sources

The original nine texts were retrieved on 2026-09-26 and are preserved byte-for-byte from the sources below. GNU and Apache texts come directly from their publishers. MIT and BSD texts come from the SPDX License List data at commit 31ba1a50e5397e00a304dbadc76531740e89ee48.

CC-BY-SA 4.0 and CC0 1.0 were retrieved on 2026-09-27 from that same SPDX revision and are also preserved byte-for-byte. They support policy attribution and the example-format dedication described in the root COPYRIGHT.

Local text	Source
GPL-2.0.txt	Free Software Foundation
GPL-3.0.txt	Free Software Foundation
LGPL-2.0.txt	Free Software Foundation
LGPL-2.1.txt	Free Software Foundation
LGPL-3.0.txt	Free Software Foundation
BSD-2-Clause.txt	SPDX
BSD-3-Clause.txt	SPDX
MIT.txt	SPDX
Apache-2.0.txt	Apache Software Foundation
CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt	SPDX
CC0-1.0.txt	SPDX

Using The Texts

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GNU filenames identify the text version. The attribution entry's SPDX expression specifies -only or -or-later according to the upstream grant.
LGPL 2.0 is the GNU Library General Public License. LGPL 2.1 and 3.0 are the GNU Lesser General Public License; these versions are distinct.
When copying LGPL 3.0, also copy GPL 3.0, whose terms it incorporates, and make both texts reachable from the attribution entry. Include other companion texts or exceptions when the component's applicable terms require them.

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