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Licenses for TianoCore Contributions

The preferred license for TianoCore is BSD-2-Clause. The TianoCore contributors agreement describes acceptable licenses for community contributions. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tianocore/edk2/master/MdePkg/Contributions.txt

• BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
• BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
• MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
• Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0
• Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib

Documenting Licenses in Source Projects

The full license should be documented in a LICENSE.TXT file, found in the package directory.

Example: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePkg/License.txt

Source file headers should contain an abbreviated version of the license, with a link to the full license text. An example is provided in the EDK II Coding Standards Specification, Section 5.2.3.4 ("License").