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COPYRIGHT NOTICE All of the documentation and software included in this software distribution from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are copyrighted by their respective developers. Portions of the software are derived from the Net/2 and 4.4-Lite Berkeley Software Distributions (BSD) of the University of California at Berkeley and those portions are copyright by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. The UC Berkeley Copyright and License agreement is binding on those portions of the software. In all cases, the NRL developers have retained the original UC Berkeley copyright and license notices in the respective files in accordance with the UC Berkeley copyrights and license. Portions of this software ...

Software developed by ISC is released under the ISC License, whose text is shown below. The ISC License is registered with and approved by the Open Source Initiative.   Text of the ISC License: Copyright © 2004-2011 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") Copyright © 1995-2003 by Internet Software Consortium   Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL,...

CeCILL-C FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Notice This Agreement is a Free Software license agreement that is the result of discussions between its authors in order to ensure compliance with the two main principles guiding its drafting: firstly, compliance with the principles governing the distribution of Free Software: access to source code, broad rights granted to users, secondly, the election of a governing law, French law, with which it is conformant, both as regards the law of torts and intellectual property law, and the protection that it offers to both authors and holders of the economic rights over software. The authors of the CeCILL-C1 license are: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - ...

SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE B (Version 2.0, Sept. 18, 2008) Copyright (C) [dates of first publication] Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice including the dates of first publication and either this permission notice or a reference to http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/ shall ...

AMENDMENTS The Netscape Public License Version 1.1 ("NPL") consists of the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 with the following Amendments, including Exhibit A-Netscape Public License.  Files identified with "Exhibit A-Netscape Public License" are governed by the Netscape Public License Version 1.1. Additional Terms applicable to the Netscape Public License. I. Effect. These additional terms described in this Netscape Public License -- Amendments shall apply to the Mozilla Communicator client code and to all Covered Code under this License. II. ''Netscape's Branded Code'' means Covered Code that Netscape distributes and/or permits others to distribute under one or more trademark(s) which are controlled...

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