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-Public Domain
+libtelnent is released to the public domain:
+
+The author or authors of this code dedicate any and all copyright
+interest in this code to the public domain. We make this dedication
+for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our
+heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
+relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
+code under copyright law. 
+
+-- Sean Middleditch <sean@middleditch.us>