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Describe best practice if including code from other projects #242

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@pmackay

As GitHub obviously encourages, some projects will include code from other projects. What is the best thing to do in that situation? Should the originator's copyright info in their license be added to the license file in the new project? Something like this? e.g.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 <author of new code and the project this license file is part of>

Copyright (c) 2013 <author of included code>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction...

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