Please clarify the license
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Description
README.md says BSD-2-Clause:
Also the LICENSE.txt is is BSD-2-Clause:
https://github.com/ruby/irb/blob/bd728dc634ac1ec148c884da156af86b8738d8f7/LICENSE.txt
While the .gemspec metadata specify Ruby or BSD-2-Clause
https://github.com/ruby/irb/blob/08eee25d28365e4fb2e11432c0535932f586cca3/irb.gemspec#L17
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Research direction
Compare the license statements in README.md and LICENSE.txt with the metadata declaration in irb.gemspec, using the linked lines as the starting points. Determine the intended license wording and make the declarations consistent, then verify the affected files no longer disagree.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100