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  Thu Apr 10 04:40:36 2025 -0700
after a question from the IBM SPSS team, clarify under which license the API falls, no redmine

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html
index dfca5b01aa3..ea998bd9e3b 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/license/index.html
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <!--#set var="TITLE" value="Genome Browser Licensing" -->
 <!--#set var="ROOT" value=".." -->
 
 <!-- Relative paths to support mirror sites with non-standard GB docs install -->
 <!--#include virtual="$ROOT/inc/gbPageStart.html" -->
 
-<h1>Website: No license or permission is needed to use the website, for academic, commercial or any other use</h1>
+<h1>Website: No license or permission is needed to use the website, API and public MySQL server for academic, commercial or any other use</h1>
 <p>This is a public website. There is no license or permission needed to use
-the website and any data on it. You can also load your own data onto our
+the website and any services (API, etc) on it. You can also load your own data onto our
 website and look at it there, and use track hubs or custom tracks to configure
 how it is displayed, as a commercial, non-commercial or any other entity. However, 
 when you use the UCSC Genome Browser in your work, please cite one of our
 <a href="../goldenPath/pubs.html">publications</a>.
 </p>
 <br>
 
 <h1>Graphics: No permission is needed to reproduce a graphic produced by the Genome Browser</h1>
 <p>Permission is granted for reuse of all graphics produced
 by the UCSC Genome Browser website. There is no need to contact us to get permission. If your 
 publisher, notably Elsevier, insists on getting approval, please direct them to this webpage. 
 However, when you use the UCSC Genome Browser in your work, please cite one of our 
 <a href="../goldenPath/pubs.html">publications</a>.</p>
 <br>