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-# License for package patches
-
-The scripts and patches to build each package is licensed under the same license as
-the actual package (so the patches and scripts to build bash are licensed under
-the same license as bash, while the patches and scripts to build python are licensed
-under the same license as python).
-
-# License for the build infrastructure
-
-For build infrastructure outside the `packages/` folder the license is [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).