FSUG-Bangalore March 2006

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Fwd: Transcript of Richard's GPLv3 presentation and Q&A from Torino, March 18th
by Abhas Abhinav 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Good Morning, Friends! Forwarding an email that came up on the FSF Europe mailing list. The transcript makes excellent reading. Plus there is also a streaming video available - links are provided in the URL below. Additionally, have a look at: http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/ On similar lines, I suggest that we have a page on our wiki that details and minutes all that we do towards the forthcoming GPLv3 event in August. I'll try to create the page today and fill it in with all the activities that have happened. Others can then put in requests, TODOs and more details... Cheers, Abhas. ----- Forwarded message from Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran(a)fsfe.org> ----- From: Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran(a)fsfe.org> To: discussion(a)fsfeurope.org Subject: Transcript of Richard's GPLv3 presentation and Q&A from Torino, March 18th Date: 30 Mar 2006 15:30:24 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=4.0 Sender: discussion-bounces(a)fsfeurope.org I've made and put online a transcript of RMS's presentation and Q&A session from the recent GPLv3 event: "The Future of Free Software" March 18th, Turin, Italy: http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html Sections 1. First, a note on "intellectual property" 2. On to the GPLv3 3. About "or any later version" and transitioning between versions 4. Software patents: explicit patent grants 5. The four freedoms of Free Software 6. Digital Restrictions Management: how it was tackled without restricting usage or modification 7. DRM and laws about effective restriction measures 8. Licence compatibility 9. Compatibility with Affero - addressing web services, if you want 10. Compatibility with two kinds of patent retaliation 11. The draft GPLv3 does contain a very limited patent retaliation clause 12. Requirements for notifying users of the licence terms 13. Question 1: What about Linux? 14. Question 2: About dynamic linking and languages 15. Question 3a: What if someone thinks the spirit has been changed? 16. Question 3b: Can writing Free Software beat DRM or is lobbying needed? (Stallman's answer discusses democracy) 17. Question 4: Who is involved in the process? 18. Question 5: Why is there not a team running it instead of you, and who will run it next time? 19. Question 6: What ideas for GPLv3 were rejected? And I've added a link to it on the GPLv3 wiki page for such texts: http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Reusable_texts -- Ciarán O'Riordan ______________________ \ To support free software, join http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _____________ \ and tell others about FSFE's http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion ----- End forwarded message -----

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LDTP 0.4.0 released !!!
by A Nagappan 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Issue VII - 29 March 2006 Welcome to the seventh issue of LDTP Newsletter! We are now celebrating our 0.4.0 release. This release features exhaustive list of bug fixes. LDTP is now stable than ever before.Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack/use LDTP. About LDTP Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke through the application's user interface. Thanks to the Accessibility team. LDTP automation framework helps in automatically executing test cases for verifying the functionality of the software being tested. This release includes.... * Refined object search from the appmap table * Data XML are now transmitted and received with in CDATA * Reimplemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo,getobjectproperty * Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects And now take a deep breath and go through the exhaustive list of bug fixes which makes this version of LDTP the most stable of the lot. A special thanks to Patrick from Sun Microsystems who has actively hacked LDTP and helped us identify and resolve many issues. * client-handler.c (add_item_to_list): A common function to generate XML object list. * client-handler.c (send_response): If data sent in chunks from server to client, then the peek code in client was not able to continue reading the next chunk as the recv with peek option always returns the first chunk. * client-handler.c (handle_request): Implemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty. Modified initappmap to get the file name from gslist only once. Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp.c (ldtp_print): Indentation * ldtp-appmap.c (remove_appmap_entries): Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_obj_after_stripping_space): Added new function to search for an object after stripping spaces. * ldtp-appmap.c (add_child_attributes): Modified it as static function. * ldtp-appmap.c (ldtp_appmap_free): If appmap is not NULL then only traverse the hash table. To avoid a critical warning. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_label_based): Modified the logic to check for label or label_by and also, if under score is in value, then remove it and then look for the match. * ldtp-command.c (ldtp_command_init_command_table): Added getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty commands to the list of commands. * ldtp-error.c (ldtp_error_get_error_message): Added new error messages. * ldtp-gui.c (ldtp_gui_get_gui_handle): If appmap is not initialized, then try to initialize it by updating the window handle. * ldtp-gui.c (update_cur_window_appmap_handle): Checked for argument NULL to avoid crash. * ldtp-logger.c (ldtp_log): vprintf also will be printed iff LDTP_DEBUG option is enabled. * ldtp-request.c (ldtp_request_fill_request): When XML packet is NULL don't process further, which avoids a crash. * ldtp-utils.c (escape_character): Modified function name escape_under_score to escape_character and also added one parameter to make this function a generic one. Check if argument is not NULL then continue else return immediately. * remap.c (get_keybinding, filter_appmap_data, get_object_info, add_appmap_data): Checked for NULL arguments to avoid crash. * remap.c (accessible_object_handle): Avoided memory fragmentation as the same data is allocated multiple times. LDTP 0.4.0 is available is rpm package. Thanks to Damien Carbery and Dave Lin of Sun Microsystems for creating LDTP packages for solaris. LDTP makes news An article has been published in the German journal "Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o" about LDTP. If your in Germany, dont let this oppurtunity slip away. Grab a copy and check out the simple article which covers the length and breadth of LDTP. Downloads... You can download the latest version of LDTP from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as deb package for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova (prashmohan(a)gmail.com) for the providing the same. For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/How_20to_20setup_20pyldtp_20in_20GNU_2fLin… References For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org All the published newsletters including the current one can be downloaded from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Newsletters For release notes of every release including the current one please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Release_20Notes For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/API_20Reference To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to jpremkumar(a)novell.com Nagappan A <anagappan(a)novell.com> Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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'LDTP Workshop' Diary (March 26)
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello Friends, The LDTP Workshop is one of those events I will certainly cherish for life. First, I would like mention (and thank) Saranavan Prabu, Thejesh and Vikram who started from far flung places like Domlur, Electronics City and Koramangala to be at Kempagowda Bus Station before 6 AM. Hat's Off guys. The Journey ----------- Our journey was quite uneventful except for the irate passenger shouting at the driver, our friends having neck ache's at every bump and a driver who's was either drunk or was surely high on something. I strongly suspect that the Rajhamsa bus was bullock-powered not by regular inter-combustion engine. ;o) When we stopped just outside Mandya for breakfast, I was so relieved to find my feet finally back on ground that I hung around the canteen so long that we almost missed the bus. But, how could the bus leave without GNU(Head)'s I say ;o) On Campus --------- On reaching SJCE campus I decided to chuck the idea of a workshop and go placing cricket but the saner members of our groups suggested that the pitch may sustain potholes and deep bumps if I lugged my tonnage around. Darn!. We met the students from Linux Computer Club-SJCE,. Sandesh, Osho and they gave us tour of the various departments labs. We found a printout stating 'No Closed Source' in big letters taped to the Electronics Department Computer lab. ;oD I never saw a college that had TFT monitors and latest computers in almost all of its labs. SJCE seems to be a very progressive college I ever seen. (The photo's of the events will be posted shortly) The Students ------------ The students of Linux Computer Club-SJCE had been working for days to convince their faculties to keep the labs open on sunday and allow them to install gnu/Linux on the computers so that we could have a hands-on workshop. Its an event which wouldn't have been organized without the adamant efforts of these guys. Thanks Guy, You Rock !!!!!!!!!!! The Event ---------- We had to start the event quite late around 11:30 and then we had few students who had come for the event. The turnout was not great as it was a weekend. Thejesh started the workshop with his talk on 'FOSS and student projects', in absence of a good public address system(the only problem we had) we had rely on the reach of our vocal chords most of the time. The good side of this was it was more fun filled classroom talk sort-of-event rather unlike the regular events. Saravana Prabhu took off the Linux Destop Testing Project(LDTP) workshop with talks on introducing Software Testing and later a more technical talk on the architecture of the project. I didn't have much change to listen to the talk as I was constantly running to the M-tech lab, trying to understand how SuSe worked and how to debug the problems with LDTP setup. After a few hic-up's the LCC-SJCE guys figured out what the problem and fixed the problem only to find that the labs had closed before we can move the workshop to the lab for a hands-on session. Darn! Rama Krishna appeared out of nowhere to deliver us from insanity and gave us a very entertaining talk on Free Software projects, localization and opportunities for students in the industry (and other topics I fail to remember). His informal one-to-one kind of entertaining talk with great slides (it had Bollywood heros/heroines dressed like in the Hollywood movie 'The Matrix') and even a pop quiz's that won few guy's a Mozilla Project T-Shirts. It left us the organizers the perpetual back-benchers shouting for t-shirts too. (Thejesh and me were cursing ourselves why didn't we have Rama Krishna start the event with his talk. [He was delivering another talk that day in NIE]) The day ended with LCC-SJCE guys planning how they could work to build they club and few suggests were discussed like having a website,having regular talks, calling for volunteers and finally working on projects. The day ended quite late at 3pm and everyone was excited but no body seems to be either hungry or ready to left the venue even after the auditorium was locked. ;o) So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us all (except Rama Krishna who had another appointment) to cool place for lunch and we had few more fun-filled hour with myself playing the jester and easy target for jokes. We left Mysore and sweet joy of breathing pure oxygen filled air at 4pm. Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ? Cheers --arky

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Fwd: [+PLUS][I+MM] Hello
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> Date: Mar 27, 2006 2:05 PM Subject: [+PLUS][I+MM] Hello To: plus-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org March - Iginite the PLUS month --------------------------------------------- Hello, Libre users of Palakkad! It is exciting to address a group of people who understand what GNU is really all about. Most operating systems were developed for commercial motives or technical motives, but GNU was developed for ethical ideals: freedom and community. All user groups invite, teach and help people to use the GNU/Linux system, and I'm sure you are going to do that. But your commitment to freedom means you can also do jobs that get to the root of the matter, campaigning for software freedom in your schools, in your civic institutions, and in all areas of life. Thank you for helping our community, and best wishes to your work. _______________________________________________ Palakkad Libre software Users Society Main Mailing List "Adding freedom to common minds" PLUS-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plus-discuss -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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K.N.Panikkar's Meeting
by Vikram Vincent 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi Sending Details of Seminar. Regards Vincent

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[OT] India Together Fund raiser
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

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LDTP Workshop in SJCE Mysore (March 26 Sunday)
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Hi, Here is the details of the "LDTP Workshop" in SJCE College in Mysore this sunday March 26. It would be great if you can join us in Mysore and help us make this event a success. Cheers --arky LDTP Workshop in SJCE Mysore. Sunday, March 26 2006 Keynote Lecture "FOSS and College Projects" Thejesh GN <http://www.techmag.biz> Duration: 25 minutes + QA 10 minutes Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) Workshop By Saravana Prabhu of LDTP Developer Team <http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/> 1. Basic testing 2. Testing as a career 3. Open vs Closed Source Testing 4. Linux Desktop Testing Project (1.5 hours) * Overview * Architecture * Demo Duration: 3:00 Hours

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[News Bytes] CC and GPL upheld in courts
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi List, Two stories about GPL and CC being upheld by courts in different continents.Any commentary and explanation of the impact of such rulings would very enlightening. TIA --arky -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GNU/FSF Press] Press Release: GPL tested in US courts in Wallace Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:52:39 -0500 From: Peter Brown <peterb(a)fsf.org> To: info-press(a)gnu.org The GPL tested in US courts - Wallace Vs FSF. The GNU General Public License stands firm. On Monday March 20, 2006 US Federal Judge John Daniel Tinder, dismissed the Sherman Act antitrust claims brought against the Free Software Foundation. The claims made by Plaintiff Daniel Wallace included: that the General Public License (GPL) constituted a contract, combination or conspiracy; that it created an unreasonable restraint of trade; and that the FSF conspired with IBM, Red Hat Inc., Novell and other individuals to pool and cross-license their copyrighted intellectual property in a predatory price fixing scheme. Peter Brown, FSF Executive Director, responded to the news, "As the author of the GPL and copyright holder on the largest body of GPL'd covered free software, the FSF hears many theories of potential legal claims and challenges to the GPL. We hear the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) expressed, that the GPL has never been tested in court, and that somehow that is a sign of its weakness. Nothing could be further from the truth of course. Put quite simply, if you don't accept the terms of the GPL, then you have no rights to the copyrighted works it covers. What is there left to test? The GPL is a software license, it is not a contract. It gives permissions from the copyright holder. You don't want to accept those permissions? End of discussion." On Monday, a US Federal Court Judge dismissed Daniel Wallace's case saying "[The GPL] acts as a means by which certain software may be copied, modified and redistributed without violating the software's copyright protection. As such, the GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more innovation." Brown continued, "Let us all stop and consider the consequences of what this US Federal Judge has said. On being presented with the facts surrounding the GPL, he was able to define a range of benefits available to those that value the freedoms delivered by the GPL. The question we are all left with is, why would anyone put up with the inferred consequences of proprietary software?", and, "If you care about lower prices, better access to software, or more innovation, then GPL'd software is for you. Or as the Free Software would describe that, you value freedom". Having dismissed the case, and finding in favor of the FSF and against Wallace. The Judge also allowed FSF costs against Wallace. Wallace, now has thirty days to appeal the decision, but the FSF expects no relevant news on this matter. -- About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants - and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org , is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Their headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT Submitted by Mia Garlick on 2006-03-16 10:49 AM. San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006 The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it. The proceedings arose when former MTV VJ and podcasting guru Adam Curry published photos of his family on the well-known online photo- sharing site Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-Sharealike license. The Dutch tabloid Weekend reproduced four of the photos in a story about Curry*s children. Curry sued Weekend for copyright and privacy infringement. As to the copyright claim, Weekend argued that it was misled by the notice *this photo is public* (which is a standard feature of all Flickr images that are viewable by the public), and that the link to the CC license was not obvious. Weekend had assumed that no authorization from Curry was needed. Audax, the publisher of Weekend, argued that it was informed of the existence of the CC license only much later by its legal counsel. The Court rejected Weekend*s defense, and held as follows: *All four photos that were taken from www.flickr.com were made by Curry and posted by him on that website. In principle, Curry owns the copyright in the four photos, and the photos, by posting them on that website, are subject to the [Creative Commons] License. Therefore Audax should observe the conditions that control the use by third parties of the photos as stated in the License. The Court understands that Audax was misled by the notice *This photo is public* (and therefore did not take note of the conditions of the License). However, it may be expected from a professional party like Audax that it conduct a thorough and precise examination before publishing in Weekend photos originating from the Internet. Had it conducted such an investigation, Audax would have clicked on the symbol accompanying the notice *some rights reserved* and encountered the (short version of) the License. In case of doubt as to the applicability and the contents of the License, it should have requested authorization for publication from the copyright holder of the photos (Curry). Audax has failed to perform such a detailed investigation, and has assumed too easily that publication of the photos was allowed. Audax has not observed the conditions stated in the License [*]. The claim [*] will therefore be allowed; defendants will be enjoined from publishing all photos that [Curry] has published on www.flickr.com, unless this occurs in accordance with the conditions of the License.* The full text of the decision (in Dutch) is available here. http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&lj n=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204 *We are very happy with this decision as it demonstrates that the millions of creators who use creative commons licenses are effectively protected against abuses of their willingness to contribute to the commons,* said Paul Keller, Public Project Lead for Creative Commons in the Netherlands. *This decision confirms that the Creative Commons licensing system is an effective way for content creators to manage their copyrights online,* said Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons CEO & Chairman, *The decision should also serve as a timely reminder to those seeking to use content online, to respect the terms that apply to that content.* About Creative Commons Netherlands Creative Commons Netherlands is collaboration between Creative Commons Corporation, Waag Society, Netherland Knowledgeland Foundation and the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. Creative Commons is supported by the Dutch Ministry for Education, Culture and Sciences. For general Information (in Dutch) visit their site. http://nl.creativecommons.org/ About Creative Commons Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic workswhether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. It is sustained by the generous support of various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general information, visit their site. http://creativecommons.org/ Contact Paul Keller Project Lead CC Netherlands, Amsterdam Email: paul(a)waag.org

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[Educational Video]"How Internet Works?"
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi, A good introduction to what makes Internet tick by "IP for Peace". This was posted on video.g00gle.com but as the service is not available in India am posting a P2P torrent. http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3460961 Cheers --arky

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[Event/films] BFS "Past Continuous" March 31- April 1
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hi Patrons of Arts, Here is another set beautiful documentaries from Bangalore Film Society. Cheers ---arky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Program For 31st of March and 1st of April Bangalore Film Society is proud to present the first edition of "Present Continuous" a new BFS program which aims to bring before you the best in documentary film-making from around the world. Friday 31st March 2006 Time: 6.30 pm BORN INTO BROTHELS Dir: Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagachi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of women in prostitution who work the city's red light area. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's efforts to look at the world of Calcutta's red light area partly through photographs taken by children living in the area. The film focuses on the children who are born in the brothels and live their entire lives within the damp and dismal walls of Sonagachi area in Calcutta. Winner of Oscar for Best Documentary, 2005 and 33 other international awards. (Re-screened by popular demand) Saturday 1st April 2006 Time: 6.30 pm WAY BACK HOME Dir: Supriyo Sen Filmmaker Supriyo Sen narrates the story of his parents who had to migrate from their small-town in East Bengal, present day Bangladesh, to Calcutta (India) after partition of India in 1947. After 50 years Sen takes both of them on an emotional journey back to their place of birth. During the course of it, they talk about their home, their neighbors, their flight and their new life in independent India. In this connection, both of them reveal that they have physically adjusted their life in Calcutta, yet they remained mentally attached to their `Desh'. The film is, on the one hand, a remarkable document of modern India's history because Sen questions also the rationality of India` partition. Winner of the Golden Conch at the Mumbai Int'l Film Fest and the 2003 BBC Audience Award for best documentary at Manchester's Commonwealth Film Festival. Admission: - Non- Members: - We expect that you will consider taking up memberships that will enable you to participate in all BFS screenings for a year hence. OR For those who seem to linger about on the membership- a minimum contribution of Rs. 30/- per movie or Rs. 50/- for entire screening will be collected per participant. Venue:- Centre for Film and Drama (CFD) Sona Towers, Miller's Road, Bangalore. Ph:- 25492774/ 25492779 Mob:- 9886213516 Email: bfs(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Forward the message to anybody you think will be interested. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/b_f_s/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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