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diff --git a/docs/COPYING b/docs/COPYING new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee79713 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/COPYING @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +The Cheetah Users' Guide, Cheetah Developers' Guide and all other +documentation in this directory is released under the Open +Publication License (http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). + +Regarding section VI of the Open Publication License, there are no +"license options" (=additional restrictions) on these works. + +A text version of the Open Publication License follows. It was +downloaded from http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/, converted to +text with 'links', and (minimally) reformatted by hand. + +################################################################### + Open Publication License + v1.0, 8 June 1999 + + I. 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