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 ## License
 
 <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.
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+This license applies to the text and assets _in this repository_.
+Implementations of this specification are not "derivative works", and thus are
+not bound by the restrictions of CC-BY-SA.