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+This product is licensed to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+(the "License"). You may not use this product except in compliance with
+the License.
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+This product may include a number of subcomponents with separate
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+The files in this folder have been modified by Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH.
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