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+> With the emergence of open-source catalogs like [Unity](https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog) and [Polaris](https://github.com/apache/polaris)both of which overlap with Whitefox’s goals and benefit from stronger community and funding—we’ve decided to archive the Whitefox project.
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 # Whitefox: An Open Protocol for Secure Data Sharing
 
 Fork of Delta-Sharing with the following goals:
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 # License
 
-[Apache License 2.0](LICENSE.txt).
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