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484         Lesser General Public License for more details.
485
486         You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
487         License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
488         Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
489
490         Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
491
492         You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
493         school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
494         necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
495
496         Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
497         library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
498
499         <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
500         Ty Coon, President of Vice
501
502         That's all there is to it!
503
504   --$Id: LICENSE,v 1.1 2004/07/14 02:18:14 hlellelid Exp $
505
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