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 ## Licenses
 
-The containerd codebase is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE.code).
+The containerd codebase is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).
 The README.md file, and files in the "docs" folder are licensed under the
 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may obtain a
 copy of the license, titled CC-BY-4.0, at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.