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+The server code and utilities are released under GPL.
+
+We also include some small libraries for convienence that may be under different licensing:
+
+SocketLib - GPL
+LibXML - ZLib License
+StackWalker - New BSD License
+ZLib - ZLib License
+MySQL - GPL
+Perl - GPL / ActiveState (under the assumption that this is a free project).