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+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 - 2025 MDAD project contributors
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 - 2025 Slavi Pantaleev
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 - 2021 Aaron Raimist
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 - 2020 Hugues Morisset
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Edgars Voroboks
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Eduardo Beltrame
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Björn Marten
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Lee Verberne
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+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 - 2023 Cody Wyatt Neiman
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