bentoo is distributed under two licenses. Which one applies to a file is
decided by that file, in this order:

1. A licence header in the file wins. Every ebuild, every eclass and the
   scripts that carry "Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
   License v2" are GPL-2 (full text in COPYING). That covers everything
   derived from the Gentoo repository, which is GPL-2 and cannot be
   relicensed here.

2. Files under a package's files/ directory that modify or come from
   third-party code (patches, unit files, upstream config files) stay under
   the licence of that upstream, not under either licence below.

3. Everything else written for bentoo that carries no header -- for
   instance .autoupdate/, layers/, profiles/catalog.toml, the profile layers
   under profiles/targets/ and profiles/features/, scripts/ without a GPL-2
   header, and the documentation -- is MIT, as follows.

Generated data (metadata/md5-cache/, Manifest) follows the file it was
generated from.

The licenses/ directory is not about this repository: it holds the texts
Portage reads for the ACCEPT_LICENSE of the packages the overlay ships.

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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018-2026 Lucas C.S. and bentoo contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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