Add a license

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Step 11: Add the LICENSE

Licenses are vital in open source repositories, because they set the rules for how others are allowed to use, change, and contribute to your project. In fact, if Mona doesn't add an open source license to her project, it is not technically open source -- in that case, it could be considered copyrighted work.

Mona did a bunch of research on open source licenses (and we recommend you do too) on https://choosealicense.com/. After a quick consultation with her legal team, Mona has selected the simple and permissive MIT license.

The Choose a license site has helpful copy/paste links you can use to grab the license text. It is strongly recommended that you do not alter the license in any way, other than filling in your project details as instructed.

Mona has already grabbed the license, can you please make sure the project details are filled in?

⌨️ Activity: Adding a License

You can follow the manual steps below, or accept the suggested change in the following comment.

1. Edit LICENSE.md on this branch, or manually edit it in the Files Changed tab.
2. Find the placeholders for [year] and [fullname].
3. Replace each placeholder with a year and name of your choosing.
4. After editing the LICENSE.md file, scroll down and click the Commit changes button.

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Step 12: Merge the license

Thanks for making those updates @jason-ocean! Go ahead and merge the LICENSE.md now and we will move on to the Code of Conduct.

⌨️ Activity: Approve the pull request

1. Clicking on this quicklink
2. Select Approve
3. Click Submit review.

You can also approve by clicking on Files changed, clicking on Review changes, selecting Approve and then Submit review.

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With your help, this is really flying! Mona has started on the Code of Conduct, she's waiting for you over there.

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Go to the pull request here.