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The BSD License

The following is a BSD license template. To
generate your own license, change the values of OWNER,
ORGANIZATION and YEAR from their original values as
given here, and substitute your own.

Note: The advertising clause in the
license appearing on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded
by the Director of the Office of Technology Licensing
of the University of California on July 22 1999. He
states that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its
entirety."

Note the new BSD license is thus equivalent to the
MIT
License, except for the no-endorsement final
clause.

<OWNER> = Regents of the University of
California
<ORGANIZATION> = University of
California, Berkeley
<YEAR> = 1998

In the original BSD license, both occurrences of the
phrase "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS" in the
disclaimer read "REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS".

Here is the license template:

Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
All
rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms,
with or without modification, are permitted provided
that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the
above copyright notice, this list of conditions and
the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the
above copyright notice, this list of conditions and
the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or
other materials provided with the distribution.

Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor
the names of its contributors may be used to endorse
or promote products derived from this software without
specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.

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