1Short version for non-lawyers:
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3The Rust Project is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT
4terms.
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6It is Copyright (c) The Rust Project Contributors.
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8Longer version:
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10Copyrights in the Rust project are retained by their contributors. No
11copyright assignment is required to contribute to the Rust project.
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13Some files include explicit copyright notices and/or license notices.
14For full authorship information, see the version control history or
15<https://thanks.rust-lang.org>
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17Except as otherwise noted, Rust is licensed under the Apache License, Version
182.0 <LICENSE-APACHE> or <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT
19license <LICENSE-MIT> or <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your option.
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21We track licenses for third-party materials in two ways:
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23* We use [REUSE](https://reuse.software) to track license information for
24 in-tree source files - both those authored by the Rust project and those
25 authored by third parties. See `REUSE.toml`, and our cached output of the
26 `reuse` tool which is committed to `license-metadata.json`.
27* We use `cargo` to track license information for out-of-tree dependencies.
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29These two sources of information are collected by the tool `generate-copyright`
30into a file called `COPYRIGHT.html`, which is shipped with each binary release
31of Rust. Please refer to that file for detailed information as to the components of
32any given Rust release. We also produce a `COPYRIGHT-library.html` file which only
33covers the subset of source code used in the Rust Standard Library, as opposed
34to the toolchain as a whole.