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- [Instructor] Another thing I want to to do with this project is help me track whether or not a project has the proper license or any license at all. Sometimes I use GitHub for really quick projects and I want to go through and make sure that I am licensing them properly. So, let's go back into the GraphQL Explorer, I'm going to add something called license info. So I'll do that after URL and license info is an object and you have the option of adding all kinds of information here. Now, the one that I'm going to use is called spdxId. This is a short Id that is standard and there's a website actually that you can look for. Just type in spdxId and it shows you all the licensees and their IDs which are really short versions of them. So let's see if I click on this, you can see that some of these have no assertion which means it doesn't have a standard kind of license. This one's BSD 2-clause. There's probably some MIT licenses…

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