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+++ b/LICENSE	Tue Feb 05 14:13:50 2013 +0100
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+Copyright:
+
+    Copyright (C) 2011,2012,2013 Heiko Schlittermann
+
+License:
+
+    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+Public License version 3 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3".
+
+The Debian packaging is:
+
+    Copyright (C) 2011 Heiko Schlittermann <hs@schlittermann.de>
+
+and is licensed under the GPL version 3, see above.