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      1 The Checker Framework is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
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      5 A few parts of the Checker Framework have more permissive licenses.
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      7  * The annotations are licensed under the MIT License.  (The text of this
      8    license appears below.)  More specifically, all the parts of the Checker
      9    Framework that you might want to include with your own program use the
     10    MIT License.  This is the checker-qual.jar file and all the files that
     11    appear in it:  every file in a qual/ directory, plus NullnessUtils.java
     12    and RegexUtil.java.  In addition, the cleanroom implementations of
     13    third-party annotations, which the Checker Framework recognizes as
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     16  * The Maven plugin is dual-licensed (you may use whichever you prefer)
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     26 Some external libraries that are included with the Checker Framework have
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     29  * javaparser is licensed under the LGPL.  (The javaparser source code
     30    contains a file with the text of the GPL, but it is not clear why, since
     31    javaparser does not use the GPL.)  See file javaparser/COPYING.LESSER
     32    and the source code of all its files.
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     34  * junit is licensed under the Common Public License v1.0 (see
     35    http://www.junit.org/license), with parts (Hamcrest) licensed under the
     36    BSD License (see LICENSE.txt in checkers/tests/junit.jar ).
     37 
     38  * plume-lib is licensed under the MIT License.
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     40 The Checker Framework includes annotations for several libraries, in
     41 directory checkers/jdk/.  The only one that uses a different license than
     42 the GPL is Google Guava, which uses Apache2.
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