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License question #20

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@ryandesign

The license says:

NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,

Did TinyEXIF originate from or is it associated with FreeBSD or was this license text just coincidentally copied from FreeBSD? If the latter, I recommend replacing the license text with the standard 2-clause BSD license which does not mention FreeBSD.

Also, there's a formatting issue. You're displaying the clauses in a bulleted list when it should be a numbered list:

TinyEXIF/README.md

Lines 42 to 46 in ccd676f

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

The license text exists in many places in this repository (README.md, TinyExif.cpp, TinyExif.h) and should be updated everywhere.

You may need to wait for the developer of easyexif, from which TinyEXIF was forked, to clarify what their intentions with the license were so that you can then make corresponding changes. See mayanklahiri/easyexif#43.

It's preferable for the license to be in a separate LICENSE file (as it was in easyexif) rather than at the bottom of your README. This enables users to find it quickly and it also enables GitHub to display the license on the GitHub project page.

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