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Update COPYING.LIB from upstream. Correct last Changelog.
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2.1, February 1999
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2.1, February 1999
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Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts
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as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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strategy to use in any particular case, based on the explanations
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be allowed to use the library. A more frequent case is that a free
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control
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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
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redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms
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library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
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library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James
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* COPYING, compile, config-ml.in, config.guess,
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* COPYING.LIB: Update from fsf.org.
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2005-07-14 Kelley Cook <[email protected]>
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* COPYING, compile, config.guess,
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* config-ml.in: Update FSF address.
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2005-07-13 Eric Christopher <[email protected]>
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