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      <h1 property="dc:title">Attribution Assurance License</h1>
      <div style="display:none;"><code property="spdx:deprecated">false</code></div>
      <h2>Full name</h2>
          <p style="margin-left: 20px;"><code property="spdx:name">Attribution Assurance License</code></p>

      <h2>Short identifier</h2>
          <p style="margin-left: 20px;"><code property="spdx:licenseId">AAL</code></p>

      <h2>Other web pages for this license</h2>
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               https://opensource.org/licenses/attribution [no longer live]
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      <div property="spdx:isOsiApproved" style="display: none;">true</div>

      <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
          <p style="margin-left: 20px;">This license was released: 2002 Originally written by Edwin A. Suominen for licensing his PRIVARIA secure networking software (see www.privaria.org). The author, who is not an attorney, places this license template into the public domain along with a complete disclaimer of any warranty or responsibility for its content or legal efficacy. You may use or modify the language freely, but entirely at your own risk.</p>

      <h2 id="licenseText">Text</h2>
      
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		      Text in italicized blue is omittable (see <a href="https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/license-matching-guidelines-and-templates/#b35-guideline-omittable-text">Matching Guidelines B.3.5</a>).
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			  Text in red is replaceable (see <a href="https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/license-matching-guidelines-and-templates/#b34-guideline-replaceable-text">Matching Guidelines B.3.4</a>).
			  License or exception text will match to the text for the specified identifier if it includes a permitted variant of this replaceable text.
			  The permitted variants can be found in the corresponding regular expression as shown in title text visible by hovering over the red text.
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         <p>Attribution Assurance License</p>

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      <div class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,5000}"> 
         <p>Copyright (c) 2002 by AUTHOR PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION * URL &quot;PROMOTIONAL SLOGAN FOR AUTHOR&apos;S PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE&quot;
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         <p>All Rights Reserved</p>

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         <p>ATTRIBUTION ASSURANCE LICENSE (adapted from the original BSD license)</p>

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      <p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided
         that the conditions below are met. These conditions require a modest attribution to
        <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .+"> &lt;AUTHOR&gt;</span></var> (the &quot;Author&quot;), who hopes that its promotional value
        may help justify the thousands of dollars in otherwise billable time invested in writing this and other
        freely available, open-source software.
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<li>
            <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> 1.</span></var>
          Redistributions of source code, in whole or part and with or without modification (the &quot;Code&quot;),
             must prominently display this GPG-signed text in verifiable form.
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<li>
            <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> 2.</span></var>
          Redistributions of the Code in binary form must be accompanied by this GPG-signed text in any
             documentation and, each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon
             is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author&apos;s
             attribution information, which includes:
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               <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> (a)</span></var>

              <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .+"> Name</span></var> (&quot;AUTHOR&quot;),

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               <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> (b)</span></var>

              <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .+"> Professional identification</span></var> (&quot;PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION&quot;), and

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              <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .+"> URL</span></var> (&quot;URL&quot;).

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            <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> 3.</span></var>
          Neither the name nor any trademark of the Author may be used to endorse or promote products
             derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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            <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> 4.</span></var>
          Users are entirely responsible, to the exclusion of the Author and any other persons, for
             compliance with (1) regulations set by owners or administrators of employed equipment, (2)
             licensing terms of any other software, and (3) local regulations regarding use, including
             those regarding import, export, and use of encryption software.
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      <p>THIS FREE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR &quot;AS IS&quot; AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
         BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
         DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
         INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, EFFECTS OF
         UNAUTHORIZED OR MALICIOUS NETWORK ACCESS; PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
         DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
         CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
         USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.</p>

    
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