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  Wed May 26 05:12:50 2021 -0700
Trying to give users a clearer idea how many licenses this repo
contains, what is under which license and who to contact to get the
license. refs #27614

diff --git LICENSE LICENSE
index 879e66d..f92183c 100644
--- LICENSE
+++ LICENSE
@@ -1,18 +1,41 @@
-Copyright (C) 2001 UC Regents
+The default license of this repository is the MIT License, but LICENSE files in
+subdirectories override the text of this LICENSE file.
+
+Therefore the code in this repository falls into three different license types:
+
+1 the default MIT license (attached below) for code in src/ and most subdirectories
+  - this directory includes all code to build and use tools and libraries to
+    read and write the Genome Browser file formats, like bigBed and bigWig, and
+    the command line tools for these, bedToBigBed, wigToBigWig and the tagStorm
+    tools and the parasol job scheduler.
+  - also, third-party code from open-source projects bundled for convenience,
+    in src/htslib (MIT), and ./src/optimalLeaf (public domain, with attribution).
+  - the directories src/hg/autoSql and src/hg/autoXml have MIT LICENSE files, so they are also 
+    under the MIT License
+2 A non-commercial license from UC for the genome browser website code in
+  src/hg/ and subdirectories (see src/hg/LICENSE), see https://genome-store.ucsc.edu/
+3 A non-commercial license from Kent Informatics for the BLAT code in src/blat/ and
+  src/jkOwnLib/, see http://www.kentinformatics.com/
+
+See https://genome.ucsc.edu/license/ for more details and on how to obtain a license.
 
-LICENSE files in subdirectories override the text of this LICENSE file.
+---- 
+
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (C) 2001 UC Regents
 
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