SimString
                              Version 1.1
                 http://www.chokkan.org/software/simstring/



* INTRODUCTION
SimString is an implementation of a simple and efficient algorithm
for approximate string matching. Please refer to the web site for
more information about this software.



* COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING INFORMATION

This program is distributed under the modified BSD license. Refer to
COPYING file for the precise description of the license.


Portions of this software are based on CDB++.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2008,2009, Naoaki Okazaki
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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      documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    * Neither the name of the authors nor the names of its contributors may
      be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
      without specific prior written permission.

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"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
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NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.


Portions of this software are based on a portable stdint.h (for MSVC).

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Paul Hsieh

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