License

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Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
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Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
IN THE SOFTWARE.

Exceptions to this standard license relate to files that represent modifications to externally licensed works (for example, patch files). These files may therefore be included in the repository under alternative licenses in order to be compliant with the licensing requirements of the associated external works.

Find below the list of licenses related to externally licensed works:

  • Apache-2.0

  • BSD-2-Clause

  • BSD-3-Clause

  • BSD-3-Clause-Clear

  • CC-BY-4.0

  • GPL-2.0

  • GPL-2.0-only

  • LGPL-2.0

  • LGPL-2.1

  • MIT

SPDX Identifiers

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SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

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