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+# LED strip buck converter
 This is a daisy-chainable buck converter for 12 mm wide LED strips with 2
 control pins, e.g. APA102. It is designed for 4 amps of output current at 5V,
 which is enough for about 60 LEDs (plus some safety margin).
@@ -13,3 +14,7 @@ allowing you to directly feed it from microcontrollers that do not use 5 volts.
 ![unpopulated PCBs in a panel](images/pcbs.jpg)
 
 ![converter feeding a strip](images/assembled.jpg)
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)