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+Argeo Commons - A lightweight integration framework
+
+Copyright 2007-2023 Mathieu Baudier
+Copyright 2012-2023 Argeo GmbH
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program 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
+Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+
+## Alternative licenses
+
+As an alternative, this Program is also provided to you under the terms and 
+conditions of the Eclipse Public License version 2.0 or any later version. 
+A copy of the Eclipse Public License version 2.0 is available at 
+http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+
+This Source Code may also be made available under the following 
+Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth 
+in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: 
+GNU General Public License, version 2.0, or any later versions of that license, 
+with additional EPL and JCR permissions (these additional permissions being 
+detailed hereafter).
+
+## Additional Permissions (when applicable)
+
+In case you decide to relicense this program to the GNU General Public License 
+version 2.0, or any later version, the copyright holders of Argeo Commons give 
+you the following additional permissions:
+
+# Eclipse Public License Permission
+
+Linking Argeo Commons statically or dynamically with other modules is making a 
+combined work based on Argeo Commons. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU 
+General Public License cover the whole combination when this license becomes 
+applicable.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of Argeo Commons give 
+you permission to combine Argeo Commons with any program released under the 
+terms and conditions of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, v2.0 (even without a 
+Secondary License enabled) or any later version of this license. You may copy 
+and distribute such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for Argeo Commons 
+and the licenses of the other code concerned, provided that you include the 
+source code of that other code when and as the GNU GPL requires distribution of 
+source code.
+
+Note that people who make modified versions of Argeo Commons are not obligated 
+to grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is their choice 
+whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives permission to release a 
+modified version without this exception; this exception also makes it possible 
+to release a modified version which carries forward this exception.
+
+# Java Content Repository API version 2.0 Permission
+
+Linking Argeo Commons statically or dynamically with other modules is making a 
+combined work based on Argeo Commons. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU 
+General Public License cover the whole combination when this license becomes 
+applicable.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of Argeo Commons give 
+you permission to combine Argeo Commons with code included in the standard 
+release of the JCR API version 2.0 (and this version only), licensed under the 
+Day Specification License and the Day JCR License. You may copy and distribute 
+such a system following the terms of the GNU GPL for Argeo Commons and the 
+licenses of the other code concerned.
+
+Copies of the Day Specification License and the Day JCR License
+are expected to be available here:
+https://jackrabbit.apache.org/jcr/jcr.html
+
+Note that people who make modified versions of Argeo Commons are not obligated 
+to grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is their choice 
+whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives permission to release a 
+modified version without this exception; this exception also makes it possible 
+to release a modified version which carries forward this exception.