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    update COPYRIGHT file to clarify that permissions apply for all files · f0a61399
    Rich Felker authored
    these changes are the outcome of a long mailing list thread that took
    place March 2016, "musl licensing". among minor other issues,
    prospective users were not confident that the whole-project MIT
    license would grant permission for files to which the COPYRIGHT file
    expressed a belief that copyright not apply, if it turned out that
    these files were actually subject to copyright.
    
    in accordance with the original intent of applying a permissive
    license to the project, which was that license issues not be an
    obstacle to use, the text which was causing confusion is removed. no
    new claims of copyright are made, but new text is added to clarify
    that the grant of permissions applies to all files, and an explicit
    grant of permission to use public headers and crt files without
    attribution has been made.
    
    this patch was reviewed and approved by all substantial contributors
    to the affected files: Bobby Bingham, John Spencer (rofl0r), Nicholas
    J. Kain, Rich Felker, Richard Pennington, Stefan Kristiansson, and
    Szabolcs Nagy.
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