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   495 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
       
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   501   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
       
   502   library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James
       
   503   Random Hacker.
       
   504 
       
   505   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
       
   506   Ty Coon, President of Vice
       
   507 
       
   508 That's all there is to it!
       
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   771 
       
   772 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
       
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   795 
       
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   797 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
       
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   811 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
       
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   831 8. TRANSLATION
       
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