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Complying with the MIT license by including it in each SVG file would defeat the stated purpose of "SuperTinyIcons" - to consume very few bytes - by ~tripling the file size of each icon.

The icons are ~500 bytes - the license is over 1 kilobyte.

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You could use the LibreJS tags, which avoid you having to copy the entire license text.

We have SPDX licence expressions as well though.

Sure, but in fairness LibreJS (like most FSF projects) pre-dated SPDX by at least a year or two. If they redesigned it today, it would use SPDX.

If only they kept their eye on the ball and stopped trying to flag "non-trivial" JS.

Not too late to switch I think, sometimes people should just consolidate efforts.

That wouldn't comply with the license terms, which require the first two paragraphs (The above copyright notice and this permission notice) to be included in copies. LibreJS tags don't include that.

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