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:Contact: goodger@users.sourceforge.net
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:Date: $Date: 2003/06/16 03:26:53 $
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:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
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One goal of the Docutils project is to be included in the Python
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standard library distribution, at which time it is expected that
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<http://www.python.org/psf/>`_.
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The persons who have associated their work with this project (the
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"Dedicator": David Goodger and the many contributors to the Docutils
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project) hereby dedicate the entire copyright, less the exceptions_
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* extras/optparse.py, copyright by Gregory P. Ward, released under a
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