Inconsistent reference to license for docs

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Issue type
Documentation
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Mostly clear
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Stale
Domain
documentation

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Read README.md and LICENSE.docs to compare the stated license names and text. Confirm with maintainers whether CC-BY-4.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 is intended before editing. Done means the license file and all README.md references consistently identify the agreed license.

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Description

Hello,

The README.md and LICENSE.docs files are inconsistent about which license applies to the libkv documentation.

The README.md file says that docs are:
"...licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License under the terms and conditions set forth in the file "LICENSE.docs". You may obtain a duplicate copy of the same license, titled CC-BY-SA-4.0, at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/."

The bolded items say that the docs license is CC-BY-SA-4.0 (and that's the text in the LICENSE.docs file), but the italicized items say that it is CC-BY-4.0 (which is a different license).

If the intent is for the docs license to be CC-BY-4.0, could the following changes be made?

  1. The LICENSE.docs file should likely be replaced with the CC-BY-4.0 license text, available from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt

  2. The bolded reference above to CC-BY-SA-4.0 in README.md should likely be changed to CC-BY-4.0.

Thank you!

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