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Open Source Used In Cisco Nexus 9000 Series 7.0(3)I5(1)
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This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
Public License instead of this License.
@c The GNU Lesser General Public License.
@center Version 2.1, February 1999
@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
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Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts
as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the
version number 2.1.]
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