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            <h1>The BSD 2-Clause License</h1>

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      <p>The following is a BSD 2-Clause license template. To generate your own license, change the values of OWNER, ORGANIZATION and YEAR from their original values as given here, and substitute your own.</p>

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    <p>&lt;OWNER&gt; = Regents of the University of California<br />
     &lt;ORGANIZATION&gt; = University of California, Berkeley<br />
     &lt;YEAR&gt; = 1998</p>

    <p>In the original BSD license, both occurrences of the phrase "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS" in the disclaimer read "REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS".</p>

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      <span class="submitted">Wed, 2010-03-31 14:02 — rixius</span>
  
  
  
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      <p>If you are deriving an application from an application licensed with this new BSD license, how does the process work?<br />
the deriving is making substansial changes.</p>
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