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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 utility files such
     12    as NullnessUtil.java, RegexUtil.java, SignednessUtil.java, etc.
     13    In addition, the cleanroom implementations of third-party annotations,
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     17  * The Eclipse plugin is dual-licensed (you may use whichever you prefer)
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     22 Some external libraries that are included with the Checker Framework have
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     25  * javaparser is dual licensed under the LGPL or the Apache license -- you
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     29    and the source code of all its files.
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     31  * JUnit is licensed under the Common Public License v1.0 (see
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     35  * plume-lib is licensed under the MIT License.
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     37 The Checker Framework includes annotations for several libraries, in
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