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+dnsmasq is Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Simon Kelley
+
+It was downloaded from: http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991, or
+   (at your option) version 3 dated 29 June, 2007.
+ 
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GNU general public license is 
+available in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 or 
+/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3
+
+The Debian package of dnsmasq was created by Simon Kelley with assistance 
+from Lars Bahner.
+