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diff --git a/licenses/LPPL-1.3b b/licenses/LPPL-1.3b deleted file mode 100644 index 63d99b454..000000000 --- a/licenses/LPPL-1.3b +++ /dev/null @@ -1,416 +0,0 @@ -The LaTeX Project Public License -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -LPPL Version 1.3b 2006-01-07 - -Copyright 1999 2002-2006 LaTeX3 Project - Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this - license document, but modification of it is not allowed. - - -PREAMBLE -======== - -The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the primary license under -which the the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed. - -You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright -and which you wish to distribute. 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