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name: license-awareness
description: Use when reviewing third-party code, AI suggestions, or external snippets to check licensing compatibility and avoid incorporating incompatible licensed code
---
## Licensing rules
- Never paste code from external sources without verifying the license.
- When AI suggests code matching a recognizable upstream project, flag it before incorporating.
- See [approved licenses](./allowed-licenses.txt) for the canonical SPDX list.
- AGPL, SSPL, and BUSL code requires explicit approval from legal.