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TII FALCON LICENSE
December 2024

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Introductory note

This license is, in part, based on the Apache License Version 2.0
(available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/), with a series of modifications.
The contribution of the Apache License 2.0 to the framing of this document is
acknowledged.

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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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