License Section about standard-readme HOT 8 CLOSED

Cool. Reopen if more discussion happens; at some point, I've got to stop bikeshedding - doesn't mean I am stopping conversation, though. :)

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Because that's an extra command. And because I think that the README should be a source of truth for this, too. It's often what one finds as the first point of entry - even before downloading the module, like on GitHub, where you have to click License to see the contents of the file.

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:) No! These are good questions. I just think that the redundancy is super useful here.

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Related: zcei/standard-readme#4 (TL;DR: Probably not required by law, but user friendly).

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TL;DR: Probably not required by law, but user friendly

Sums it up for me.

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If I just cat the README, I should know the License without having to look in another file.

good point, just forgot about that. hm.

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But one more thing. Why you'll cat the README and expect to have license header as last header, when you'll see the LICENSE file when ls. Just curious. Everything we need is good and logical mind.

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In 90 or even 99% of the cases there's also license file in every repository, so you can directly cat it, not the readme, lol. But nevermind, i'm just thinking differently whole life :D

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