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These license files are hand-collected (not colleted by a script) from the extracted package sources in our build tree. They include license files for all upstream packages which are included in bbc-contents or singularity-contents (and therefore included on an LNX-BBC). They do not include licenses for packages which are not included on an LNX-BBC, even if those packages are present in the gar tree. (Emacs is an example: we can build it from the tree, but it's never put on a 50 MB disc, and so there is no license for it in special/licenses at the moment.) It would be better if, in the future, there were a straightforward way to collect this information programmatically. Of course, that might require all upstream package maintainers to start providing useful copyright information in a relatively standardized format. As Cory Doctorow might have said, we will probably all have submarine cars before that happens.