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+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, dis-
+tribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit
+persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the fol-
+lowing conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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