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 ## License
 
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+The code in this repository is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE) by [GitHub](https://github.com).
+
+The CodeQL CLI (including the CodeQL engine) is hosted in a [different repository](https://github.com/github/codeql-cli-binaries) and is [licensed separately](https://github.com/github/codeql-cli-binaries/blob/main/LICENSE.md). If you'd like to use the CodeQL CLI to analyze closed-source code, please [contact us](https://github.com/enterprise/contact) for further help.
 
 ## Visual Studio Code integration