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 License
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-This project is licensed under the [GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
-version 3][LGPL-3.0].  Configuration files and examples are licensed under the
-[CC0 1.0 license][CC0-1.0]. The [original work][original] by [Solokeys][solokeys] from which this repository is forked from is licensed under [Apache-2.0][Apache-2.0] OR [MIT][MIT]  For more information, see the license header in
-each file.  You can find a copy of the license texts in the
-[`LICENSES`](./LICENSES) directory.
+This project is licensed under [Apache-2.0][Apache-2.0] OR [MIT][MIT]  For more information, see the license header in each file.
+Configuration files and examples are licensed under the [CC0 1.0 license][CC0-1.0]. 
+You can find a copy of the license texts in the [`LICENSES`](./LICENSES) directory.
 
-[LGPL-3.0]: https://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0
 [CC0-1.0]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 [Apache-2.0]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
 [MIT]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
-[solokeys]: https://solokeys.com/
-[original]: https://github.com/solokeys/piv-authenticator
 
 This project complies with [version 3.0 of the REUSE specification][reuse].
 
 [reuse]: https://reuse.software/practices/3.0/
 
+Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in `piv-authenticator` by you, shall be licensed as [Apache-2.0][Apache-2.0] OR [MIT][MIT], without any additional terms or conditions.
+
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