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+The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:
+
+May you do good and not evil. 
+May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
+May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
+
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+from https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/689401a6cfb4c234 and memorialized here https://spdx.org/licenses/blessing.html