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+# License
+As a work of the United States Government, this project is in the
+public domain within the United States.
+
+Additionally, we waive copyright and related rights in the work
+worldwide through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
+
+## CC0 1.0 Universal Summary
+
+This is a human-readable summary of the
+[Legal Code (read the full text)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode).
+
+### No Copyright
+
+The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to
+the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide
+under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the
+extent allowed by law.
+
+You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial
+purposes, all without asking permission.
+
+### Other Information
+
+In no way are the patent or trademark rights of any person affected by CC0,
+nor are the rights that other persons may have in the work or in how the
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+
+Unless expressly stated otherwise, the person who associated a work with
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+all uses of the work, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
+When using or citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the
+author or the affirmer.
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+The Digital Viewer and Validator (DVV) software incorporates code from the following software applications, each without modification and entirely under their own licenses. 
+
+### JHove
+See dvv2\license\JHove_License.txt
+
+### Image Magick
+See dvv2\lib\ImageMagick-7\LICENSE.txt