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+This is the Debian-packaged version of Maypole, put together by Ben
+Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk> using source from:
+
+ http://maypole.perl.org/
+
+The authors of Maypole are Simon Cozens <simon@cpan.org> et al.
+(see /usr/share/doc/libmaypole-perl/AUTHORS).
+
+You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself:
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of either:
+
+ a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+ Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later
+ version, or
+
+ b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.
+
+On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' and
+the Artistic Licence in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.