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+Title: Legal Terms
+
+
+Copyright
+=========
+
+To be included in this distribution, a software package must either be free of
+any copyright interests or be accompanied by a copyright license.  If
+accompanied by a license, the license must meet the following conditions:
+
+  * It must be a "free software license" as classified on the [list of
+    licenses published by Free Software Foundation, Inc.][fsl]
+  * It must be an "open source license" found on the [Open Source Initiative's
+    list of approved licenses][osl].
+  * It must be a "free culture license" found on the [list of licenses that meet
+    the Definition of Free Cultural Works][fcl].
+
+
+[fsl]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
+[osl]: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
+[fcl]: http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#List_of_licenses