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+/*! @page license WiredTiger license
+
+The WiredTiger software is Open Source software: you can redistribute
+it and/or modify it under the superset of the terms of version 3 of the
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html">
+<b>GNU General Public License</b></a>
+as published by the Free Software Foundation, and the
+<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause">
+<b>University of California, Berkeley (BSD) 3-Clause License</b></a>.
+
+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
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html">
+<b>GNU General Public License</b></a> for details.
+
+For a license to use the WiredTiger software under conditions other than
+those described above, or for technical support for this software, please
+contact WiredTiger, Inc. at
+<a mailto="info@wiredtiger.com">info@wiredtiger.com</a>.
+
+@section library 3rd party software included in the WiredTiger library
+
+The WiredTiger binary library build includes the following 3rd party
+software, distributed under the following licenses:
+
+<table>
+@hrow{File, License}
+@row{src/include/bitstring.i, University of California\, Berkeley (BSD) 3-Clause License}
+@row{src/include/queue.h, University of California\, Berkeley (BSD) 3-Clause License}
+@row{src/utilities/util_getopt.c, University of California\, Berkeley (BSD) 3-Clause License}
+</table>
+
+@section distribution 3rd party software included in the WiredTiger distribution
+
+The WiredTiger distribution includes additional 3rd party software
+licensed under a variety of licenses. This software is not included
+in the WiredTiger library binary as built by the distribution, it is
+only used to build and test the WiredTiger documentation and software.
+If you extract portions of the WiredTiger distribution for inclusion in
+other packages, or redistribute selected portions of the WiredTiger
+sources, please review the copyright notices and LICENSE files included
+in the WiredTiger distribution for the terms and conditions of such
+redistribution.
+
+@section pd Public domain software
+
+Portions of this program are public domain software. Public domain
+files have copyright notices releasing the software into the public
+domain and may be freely used.
+
+*/