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+Upstream Authors: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert at interlog dot com>,
+ Bruce Allen <ballen at gravity dot phys dot uwm dot edu>,
+ Peter Allworth <linsol at zeta dot org dot au>,
+ James Bottomley <jejb at parisc-linux dot org>,
+ Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse dot de>,
+ Kurt Garloff,
+ Grant Grundler <grundler at parisc-linux dot org>,
+ Christophe Varoqui <christophe dot varoqui at free dot fr>,
+ Michael Weller <eowmob at exp-math dot uni-essen dot de>,
+ Eric Youngdale <eric at andante dot org>
+
+Copyright:
+
+This software is copyright(c) 1994-2021 by the authors
+
+Most of the code in this package is covered by a BSD license.
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the BSD License
+can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD'. All the code
+in the library (usually called libsgutils) is covered by a
+BSD license.
+
+Some of the older utilities are covered by the GPL. More precisely:
+You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the
+GNU General Public License either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU
+General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
+file. The later GPL-3 is found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3
+file but no code in this package refers to that license.
+
+Douglas Gilbert
+4th October 2021