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+JuPedSim contributors:
+
+Erik Andresen
+Mohcine Chraibi
+David Haensel
+Ulrich Kemloh
+Andrea Portz
+Oliver Schmidts
+Denis Shhikhalev
+Jun Zhang
+
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+Licence:
+========
+JuPedSim is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+any later version.
+
+JuPedSim is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+along with JuPedSim. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+
+Disclaimer:
+========
+In no event shall JuPedSim be liable to any party for direct, indirect, special,
+incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, arising out of the
+use of this software and its documentation, even if JuPedSim has been advised of
+the possibility of such damage.
+JuPedSim specifically disclaims any warranties, including, but not limited to,
+the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
+The software and accompanying documentation, if any, provided hereunder is
+provided “as is”. JuPedSim has no obligation to provide maintenance, support,
+updates, enhancements, or modifications.
+Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH makes no warranty, expressed or implied,
+to users of JuPedSim, and accepts no responsibility for its use. Users of JuPedSim
+assume sole responsibility for determining the appropriateness of its use; and for
+any actions taken or not taken as a result of analyses performed using this tool.
+Users are warned that JuPedSim is intended for academic use only. This
+tool is an implementation of several computer models that may or may not have
+predictive capability when applied to a specific set of factual circumstances. Lack
+of accurate prediction