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1 Please note that the included source from Timidity, the MIDI decoder, is also
2 licensed under the following terms (GNU LGPL), but can also be used
3 separately under the GNU GPL, or the Perl Artistic License. Those licensing
4 terms are not reprinted here, but can be found on the web easily.
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6 Other external libraries (such as Ogg Vorbis, SMPEG, etc) have their own
7 licenses which you should be aware of before including the related code
8 in your configuration. Most (if not all) are also under the LGPL, but are
9 external projects and we've got no control over them.
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