| author | Alberto Bertogli
<albertito@blitiri.com.ar> 2011-05-14 23:30:17 UTC |
| committer | Alberto Bertogli
<albertito@blitiri.com.ar> 2011-05-14 23:33:51 UTC |
| parent | fd799f25784b67241c6ae53c2f593fe06556b360 |
| doc/LICENSE | +18 | -179 |
diff --git a/doc/LICENSE b/doc/LICENSE index bdf1e48..a9dc71f 100644 --- a/doc/LICENSE +++ b/doc/LICENSE @@ -1,186 +1,25 @@ -This project, 'msnlib', is copyrighted by Alberto Bertogli and licensed under -the Open Software License version 2.0 as obtained from www.opensource.org (and -included here-in for easy reference) (that license itself is copyrighted by -Larry Rosen). +msnlib is licensed under the MIT license, as reproduced below. -Note that the "Original Work" that this license covers is only the library -itself and the client, along with the sample callbacks. 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