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Copyright (c) 2008-2019 Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 Regents of the University of Minnesota.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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If not stated otherwise, all content is licensed under the `Creative Commons 
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence (CC BY-SA) 
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Credits
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Major funding for the development of MapServer has been provided by NASA through
cooperative agreements with the University of Minnesota, Department of Forest
Resources. Additional enhancements have been made by the State of Minnesota,
Department of Natural Resources and the Land Management Information Center. We
would like to acknowledge other major contributions as well:

* MapServer and MapScript have been developed by Stephen Lime.

* Raster access module developed by Pete Olson and Stephen Lime.

* PHP/MapScript module was developed by `DM Solutions`_ and is maintained by `MapGears`_.

* Portions copyright (c) 1998 State of Minnesota, Land Management Information
  Center.
  
* Ongoing maintenance and support frequently provided by the US Army Corps of Engineers

* Several version 6.2 features funded through Météo-France

.. _`DM Solutions`: http://www.dmsolutions.ca
.. _`MapGears`: http://mapgears.com