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---- Part 1: CMU/UCD copyright notice: (BSD like) ----- Copyright 1989, 1991, 1992 by Carnegie Mellon University Derivative Work - 1996, 1998-2000 Copyright 1996, 1998-2000 The Regents of the University of California All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of CMU and The Regents of the University of California not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific written permission. CMU AN...

This work is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. License By obtaining and/or copying this work, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions. Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this work, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the work or portions thereof, including modifications: • The full text of this NOTICE in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work. • Any pre-existing intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or terms and conditions. If none exist, the W...

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 ...

Academic Free License (“AFL”) v. 3.0 This Academic Free License (the "License") applies to any original work of authorship (the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the following licensing notice adjacent to the copyright notice for the Original Work: Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license, for the duration of the copyright, to do the following: a) to reproduce the Original Work in copies, either alone or as part of a collective work; b) to translate, adapt, alter, transform, modify, or arrange the Original Work, thereby creating derivative works ("Derivative W...

Yahoo! Public License, Version 1.1 (YPL) This Yahoo! Public License (this "Agreement") is a legal agreement that describes the terms under which Yahoo! Inc., a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94089 ("Yahoo!") will provide software to you via download or otherwise ("Software"). By using the Software, you, an individual or an entity ("You") agree to the terms of this Agreement. In consideration of the mutual promises and upon the terms and conditions set forth below, the parties agree as follows: Grant of Copyright License 1.1 - Subject to the...

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