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+Profanity
+Copyright (C) 2012 - 2014 James Booth <boothj5@gmail.com>
+
+Profanity is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+Profanity is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with Profanity.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+There is an additional exception from the author permitting linking
+with OpenSSL:
+
+As copyright holder, I give permission for profanity to be linked to
+the OpenSSL libraries. This includes permission for profanity
+binaries to be distributed linked against the OpenSSL libraries.
+All other obligations under the GPL v3 remain intact.