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+Format-Specification: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
+Maintainer: TiongHiang Lee (thlee@onemindsoft.org)
+Name: commons-java
+Source: http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2004 TiongHiang Lee
+License: LGPL-2.1+
+ 
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2009 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ 2009, tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
+License: LGPL-2.1+
+
+License: LGPL-2.1+
+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+ the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any
+ later version.
+ .
+ A copy of the LGPL-2.1 can be found at `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1' on
+ any Debian system.