Please clarify the license of various boost/thread/detail headers

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Issue type
Documentation
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cpp
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documentation

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Start with the three named headers under include/boost/thread/detail and inspect the repository for LICENSE.TXT or other licensing documentation. Confirm how the referenced dual license is represented in the repository, then make the license information consistent and verify that all three headers point to an available, authoritative reference.

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Description

These three files:

https://github.com/boostorg/thread/blob/develop/include/boost/thread/detail/invoke.hpp
https://github.com/boostorg/thread/blob/develop/include/boost/thread/detail/invoker.hpp
https://github.com/boostorg/thread/blob/develop/include/boost/thread/detail/make_tuple_indices.hpp

all say:

// This file is dual licensed under the MIT and the University of Illinois Open
// Source Licenses. See LICENSE.TXT for details.

However no LICENSE.TXT is present in the repo.

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