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   4  ADOdb is dual licensed under BSD and LGPL.
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   6  In plain English, you do not need to distribute your application in source code form,
   7  nor do you need to distribute ADOdb source code, provided you follow the rest of
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  10  For more info about ADOdb, visit http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
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  12  BSD 3-Clause License
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  15  (c) 2000-2013 John Lim (jlim@natsoft.com)
  16  (c) 2014      Damien Regad, Mark Newnham and the ADOdb community
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