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  <section id="boring-legal-stuff">
<h1>Boring legal stuff<a class="headerlink" href="#boring-legal-stuff" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>The Eggdrop bot is Copyright (C) by Robey Pointer. As of January 1997, Eggdrop is distributed according to the GNU General Public License. There should be a copy of this license in the COPYING file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. As of Eggdrop 1.3.28, all changes made by the Eggheads Development Team to the Eggdrop source code and any related files are Copyright (C) by Eggheads Development Team. The source code will still be distributed according to the GNU General Public License as Robey Pointer did in the past. Releases previous to 1.0m were made using a different licensing scheme. You may, at your option, use the GNU General Public License on those versions (instead of the license packaged with them) with Robey’s blessing. For any versions bearing a copyright date of 1997 or later, you have no choice - you must use the GNU General Public License.</p>
<p>The files match.c, net.c and blowfish.c are exempt from the above restrictions. match.c is original code by Chris Fuller and has been placed by him into the public domain. net.c is by Robey has placed it in the public domain. blowfish.c is by various sources and is in the public domain as well. All 3 files contain useful functions that could easily be ported to other applications.</p>
<p>Tcl is by John Ousterhout and is in no way affiliated with Eggdrop. It likely has its own set of copyrights and what-nots.</p>
<p>There is no warranty, implied or whatever. You use this software at your own risk, no matter what purpose you put it to.</p>
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