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This text historically was copied verbatim from rust-lang/rust's own README [1]
with the intention of licensing projects the same as rustc's own license, namely
a dual MIT/Apache-2.0 license. The clause about "various BSD-like licenses"
isn't actually correct for almost all projects other than rust-lang/rust and
the wording around "both" was slightly ambiguous.

This commit updates the wording to match more precisely what's in the
standard library [2], namely clarifying that there aren't any BSD-like licenses
in this repository and that the source is licensable under either license, at
your own discretion.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/f0fe716dbcbf2363ab8f929325d32a17e51039d0#license
[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/f0fe716dbcbf2363ab8f929325d32a17e51039d0/src/libstd/lib.rs#L5-L9
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# License

`miow` is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and
the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various BSD-like
licenses.
This project is licensed under either of

See LICENSE-APACHE, and LICENSE-MIT for details.
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

### Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Serde by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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