Why is my web site being scanned for license.txt, and should I be worried?

Lately I am seeing multiple daily 404s for variations of “license.txt”, e.g., “wordpress/license.txt”, “blog/license.txt”, “old/license.txt”, “new/license.txt”. Here’s a little snippet of slightly redacted logfile to illustrate:

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