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[ADDED] Documentation for asterisks being added to license names [#15…
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Signed-off-by: Shane Lattanzio <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ all of your project's dependencies and includes information about which need to
be approved. The project name at the top of the report can be set with
`license_finder project_name add`.

### Note:
When using the yarn package manager, when a node_module's package.json doesn't
explicitly declare a license, yarn indicates that it has inferred the license based
on some keywords in other files by appending an asterisk to the license name. If you
see a * at the end of the license name, this is intended.

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/pivotal-legacy/LicenseFinder/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-reports)
for advice about adding and customizing reports.

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