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8 <pre xml:space="preserve">The download package includes license files for both BSD and LGPL but all headers in the source files are LGPL
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11/*
12 * server.c - functions for creating a SSH server
13 *
14 * This file is part of the SSH Library
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16 * Copyright (c) 2004-2013 by Aris Adamantiadis
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32 */
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