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diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md index 28fbecabf5..a6538c0336 100644 --- a/LICENSE.md +++ b/LICENSE.md @@ -1,361 +1,16 @@ -### GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE +Kodi is provided under -Version 2, June 1991 + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later - Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA - Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies - of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. +Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, according with -### Preamble + LICENSES/GPL-2.0-or-later -The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom -to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is -intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free -software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This -General Public License applies to most of the Free Software -Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to -using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by -the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to -your programs, too. -When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not -price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you -have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for -this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it -if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it -in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. +In addition, other licenses may also apply. 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