Copyright Notice and Statement for
NCSA HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) Software Library and Utilities

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NCSA HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) Software Library and Utilities
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by the Board of
Trustees of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved.

Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National Laboratories
(SNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Jean-loup Gailly and Mark
Adler (gzip library).

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted for any purpose (including commercial
purposes) 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.
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       and to credit the contributors.
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Portions of HDF5 were developed with support from the University of
California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UC LLNL). The
following statement applies to those portions of the product and must be
retained in any redistribution of source code, binaries, documentation,
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       This work was partially produced at the University of
       California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UC LLNL)
       under contract no. W-7405-ENG-48 (Contract 48) between the U.S.
       Department of Energy (DOE) and The Regents of the University of
       California (University) for the operation of UC LLNL.
       
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