# License and copyright

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2017-2019, Daniel Roethlisberger and contributors.
All rights reserved.
Licensed under the 2-clause BSD license contained herein.


## Contributions

By contributing to the software, the contributor releases their
contribution under the license and copyright terms herein.  While
contributors retain copyright to their contributions, they grant the
main copyright holder of the software the irrevocable, transferable
right to relicense the software as a whole or in part, including their
contributions, under different open source licenses than the one
contained herein.


## License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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## Note

The ACE archive format and ACE compression and decompression
algorithms have been designed by Marcel Lemke.  The above copyright
notice and license does not constitute a claim of intellectual property
over ACE technology beyond the copyright of this python implementation.