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docs(website): Briefly document the concept of a "Main License"
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <[email protected]>
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website/docs/guides/license-handling.md

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Detected licenses are those licenses that are detected via an ORT *scanner* implementation by looking at the contents of all source code files belonging to a package, in particular at the contents of license files or copyright headers in source code files.
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Detected licenses complement the picture created by declared license by revealing envelope cases where the declared and detected licenses do not match.
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### Main License
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The main license is a convenience construct that combines the declared license(s) with those detected license(s) whose findings stem from the `licenseFilePatterns` configured in `config.yml`.
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### Concluded license
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The concluded license is manually created via a [curation](../configuration/package-curations.md).

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