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		teamhappy on March 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub unveils its Licenses API Does anybody know where the license texts come from? Copy & paste from the OSI website? In other words: Are they equivalent? (The OSI is part of the SPDX workgroup, but that doesn't really answer the question.)

icebraining on March 26, 2015 [–]

They seem to be using the same licenses they used in choosealicense.com, and those are hosted in this repo[1] and have source information embedded.

[1] https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/tree/gh-pages/_...

teamhappy on March 27, 2015 | [–]

The ISC licenses from choosealicense.com, the SPDX site, and the OSI site differ (very very slightly.)

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