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 ## License
 
-This software and its documentation are distributed under the terms of the FSF Lesser GNU Public
-License (see lgpl.txt).
+This software and its documentation are distributed under the terms of
+the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+
+See the `lgpl.txt` file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
 
 ## Getting started