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* The files inet/getnameinfo.c and sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c are copyright
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* The file sunrpc/des_impl.c is copyright Eric Young:

Copyright (C) 1992 Eric Young
    Collected from libdes and modified for SECURE RPC by Martin Kuck 1994
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* The libidn code is copyright Simon Josefsson, with portions copyright
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This file is part of GNU Libidn.

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This file contains functions from GLIB, including gutf8.c and
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* The file posix/runtests.c is copyright Tom Lord:

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* The posix/rxspencer tests are copyright Henry Spencer:

Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Henry Spencer.  All rights reserved.
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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on
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Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
         which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright
         by the University of Cambridge, England.

somewhere reasonably visible in your documentation and in any relevant
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ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/

should also be given in the documentation. However, this condition is not
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* Part of stdio-common/tst-printf.c is copyright C E Chew:

Feel free to copy, use and distribute this software provided:

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* Various long double libm functions are copyright Stephen L. Moshier:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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