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Please clarify license #4

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Please specify a clear license for this repository.

Currently, sunfish.lua says: "Code license: BSD".

However, this is ambigious. There are multiple "BSD licenses" with important differences. Please write exactly which of the "BSD licenses" you mean. Ideally, suggest to just paste the license text into a text file called LICENSE.txt and also make a short mention in the README file. Please remember to replace the placeholders.

The two now widely used "BSD licenses" are:

There are other "BSD licenses" around (see here and here) but they rarely used these days or are considered deprecated.

However …

However, it seems this code is directly derived from https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish, which is licensed GPLv3.
If this code is indeed a derivative work, then this repository should probably be GPLv3 because this is a strong copyleft license.

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