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How to cite?

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Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
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Domain
documentation

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The issue asks which of three citation strings is official, and the payload names no file or test. Before writing anything, check whether the maintainers have answered in the thread, since the only comment is not shown. Done means one agreed citation text is recorded in the project's documentation. Until a maintainer picks the wording, this is not a good first change.

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Description

I'm wondering what the official citation for the scancode-licensedb would be. Is it

_LicenseDB_, nexB Inc. and others, <https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/>.

or

_LicenseDB_, AboutCode, <https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/>.

or

_LicenseDB_, AboutCode and its contributors, <https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/>.

or something totally different?

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