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+PHPWord, a pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents.
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+Copyright (c) 2010-2014 PHPWord.
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+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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+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 GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details.
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+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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