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1 root 1.1 =head1 About this Program
2    
3     CF+ is free software, copylefted under the General Public License, below.
4    
5     You can download the source and binary versions at
6     http://crossfire.schmorp.de/ and/or http://software.schmorp.de/.
7    
8 root 1.2 =head2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
9 root 1.1
10 root 1.2 =head3 Version 2, June 1991
11 root 1.1
12     Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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17 root 1.2 =head3 Preamble
18 root 1.1
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274 root 1.2 =head3 NO WARRANTY
275 root 1.1
276     11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
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296 root 1.2 =head3 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
297 root 1.1
298 root 1.2 =head3 Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
299 root 1.1
300     If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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327    
328     If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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333     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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340    
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344    
345     Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
346     `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
347    
348     <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
349     Ty Coon, President of Vice
350    
351     This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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354     library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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356    
357 root 1.2 =head1 Opening Song "In a Heartbeat"
358    
359     The Song "In a Heartbeat" that comes with CF+ was licensed from Kevin
360     MacLeod (incompetech.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
361     License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
362    
363     Crossfire TRT servers might provide other songs during gameplay which have
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365    
366 root 1.1 =head1 Sleepycat BerkeleyDB
367    
368     Some binary distributions might contain BerkeleyDB, which has the
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370     writing this fine piece of software.
371    
372     You can get BerkeleyDB at http://www.sleepycat.com/
373    
374     /*
375     * Copyright (c) 1990-2006
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458     * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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