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 All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
 
-All Documentation content that resides under the doc/ directory of this repository is licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.
+All Documentation content that resides under the `doc/` directory of this repository is licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.
 
 ## Install a development environment