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-
- NOTE: The GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation,
- but the instances of code that it refers to (the Linux-NTFS project,
- including the NTFS library "libntfs", the NTFS utilities "ntfsprogs"
- and the Linux kernel NTFS driver) are copyrighted by me and others
- who actually wrote them.
-
-	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
-
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 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 		       Version 2, June 1991