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 # Templates for Coding Projects
 Author: Jannik Beyerstedt  
-**License**: BSD 2-clause (with patent grant)
+**License**: CC BY 4.0
 
 Here goes the general project description in a few sentences.
 In this case, this repo collects all of the bootstrapping files needed for different programming languages.