The following is the text of the EPICS Open software license agreement which now applies to EPICS Base and many of the unbundled EPICS extensions and support modules.
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license rights. 3.You may modify and make a copy or copies of the Software for use within your organization, if
you meet the following conditions: a.Copies in source code must include the copyright notice and this Software License
Agreement. b.Copies in binary form must include the copyright notice and this Software License Agreement
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the copy. 4.You may modify a copy or copies of the Software or any portion of it, thus forming a work based
on the Software, and distribute copies of such work outside your organization, if you meet all of
the following conditions: a.Copies in source code must include the copyright notice and this Software License
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in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the copy; c.Modified copies and works based on the Software must carry prominent notices stating that
you changed specified portions of the Software. 5.Portions of the Software resulted from work developed under a U.S. Government contract and are
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behalf a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in this computer software to
reproduce, prepare derivative works, and perform publicly and display publicly. 6.WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. THE SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE
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