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   1  WordPress - Web publishing software
   2  
   3  Copyright 2013 by the contributors
   4  
   5  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   6  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   7  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   8  (at your option) any later version.
   9  
  10  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  11  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  12  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  13  GNU General Public License for more details.
  14  
  15  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  16  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  17  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
  18  
  19  This program incorporates work covered by the following copyright and
  20  permission notices:
  21  
  22    b2 is (c) 2001, 2002 Michel Valdrighi - m@tidakada.com -
  23    http://tidakada.com
  24  
  25    Wherever third party code has been used, credit has been given in the code's
  26    comments.
  27  
  28    b2 is released under the GPL
  29  
  30  and
  31  
  32    WordPress - Web publishing software
  33  
  34    Copyright 2003-2010 by the contributors
  35  
  36    WordPress is released under the GPL
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  41                         Version 2, June 1991
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 351  If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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 353  
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 356      This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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 359  The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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 369    `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
 370  
 371    <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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