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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ control over the mnemonic itself, and other components can request
 deterministic data. The seed can be split using the Keyfork Shard mechanism,
 which utilizes Shamir's Secret Sharing to allow "M-of-N" recovery of the seed.
 
+All crate licenses are notated using the "license" field in their respective
+Cargo.toml. As a general rule, As a general rule, crates with binaries are
+licensed AGPL and crates only used as a library are licensed MIT. Forked
+projects retain their original licenses.
+
 ## Dependency Policy
 
 Dependencies must not be added to core utilities such as seed generation and