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1<html><head><title>Copying</title></head><body><h2> Copying</h2>
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3<p>
4<b>The Qtopia Environment is Copyright &copy; 2000 Trolltech AS.</b>
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7<b>
8 You may use, distribute and copy the Qtopia Environment under the terms of
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15<h1 align=center>GNU General Public License
16<small>Version 2, June 1991</small>
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20 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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