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		lights0123 on Oct 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor,... > In old versions of npm, to convey “all rights reserved” or “proprietary” you used to need to set the license field in package.json to "UNLICENSED" Still is: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#license > Finally, if you do not wish to grant others the right to use a private or unpublished package under any terms: `{ "license": "UNLICENSED" }`

chrismorgan on Oct 6, 2020 [–]

Thanks for the correction. I’ve even confused myself on this one because of the title of https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8918 before, and I did it again now a few years later! My apologies.

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