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+Licensed to Apereo under one or more contributor license
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+for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+Apereo licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
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+except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain a
+copy of the License at the following location:
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
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