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Copyright(c) 1986 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.

The IRAF software is publicly available, but is NOT in the public domain.
The difference is that copyrights granting rights for unrestricted use and
redistribution have been placed on all of the software to identify its authors.
You are allowed and encouraged to take this software and use it as you wish,
subject to the restrictions outlined below.

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