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 Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
 
 
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
+
+PulseView is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+(GPL), version 3 or later.
+
+While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
+some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
+the program as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+ (e.g. also
+due to the fact that it links against GPLv3+ libraries).
+
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
+
+
+Copyright notices
+-----------------
+
+A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
+had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
+
+Example:
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
+
+is to be interpreted as
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
+
+
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