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The license is also suspicious

   ## License
   All software included is bundled with own license
   The MIT License (MIT)
   Copyright (c) 2013 Samuel Vasko
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

People can think that the whole package is MIT when it is certainly not (there's GNU inside)!

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     All software included is bundled with own license

How can I make this more clear than?

You have to put all the licenses of the parts you distribute in the same file where you put your license. You have to specify in that same file by names which parts are covered with which license. If you have Firefox, type about:license. You'll get a huge file where every license is precise what covers (only small selection here):

    Apple License

    This license applies to certain files in the directories js/src/assembler/assembler/, js/src/assembler/wtf/, js/src/yarr, content/media/webaudio/blink, and widget/cocoa.

    Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    ....

    Apple/Mozilla NPRuntime License

    This license applies to the file dom/plugins/base/npruntime.h.

    Copyright © 2004, Apple Computer, Inc. and The Mozilla Foundation. 
    All rights reserved.

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