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@@ -178,6 +178,15 @@ Example::
 
 ✨🍰✨
 
+.. note::
+
+   Commercial users and redistributors of `pipenv` should be aware that the public
+   `Safety-DB` project backing this feature is licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA. Non-commercial
+   use of this feature and use by organisations with their own pyup.io commercial license
+   are thus both clearly fine, but other commercial redistributors and end users may want
+   to perform their own legal assessment before relying on the capability.
+
+
 ☤ Community Integrations
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