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 License
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-BitShares Core is under the MIT license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/blob/master/LICENSE)
+BitShares Core is under the MIT license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
 for more information.