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+---
+title: "License"
+date: 2018-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
+anchor: "license"
+weight: 40
+---
+
+This project is licensed under the [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/owncloud/ocis-accounts/blob/master/LICENSE) license. For the license of the used libraries you have to check the respective sources.