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 `links.py` takes both of those types of wikilinks in order to perform its calculation.
 
 it looks at the contents between the curly brackets, converts them to a filename format (replacing spaces for underscores), and assummes that file actually exists.
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+# license
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+[peer production license](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License)