The OpenLDAP Public License
-Version 1.2, 1 September 1998
-Copyright 1998, The OpenLDAP Foundation.
+Version 1.4, 18 January 1999
+Copyright 1998-1999, The OpenLDAP Foundation.
All Rights Reserved.
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