- Inkscape Board of Directors

[Referendum] GSoC Reunion Travel Sponsorship
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

A majority vote of the current board members is required for this matter. Proposal: Sponsor costs for GSoC participants to attend the GSoC Reunion according to the following schedule: * Up to $1500 each for GSoC admins who have served 2+ years * Up to $1000 each for GSoC mentors who have mentored for 2+ years * Up to $500 each for students who successfully completed their mentorship, and who continued contributing outside GSoC. Josh Andler will act as event coordinator to provide a point of contact for attendees and to collect expense info for reimbursement. [ ] a. Yes, approve this funding proposal for whomever gets accepted [ ] b. I might vote yes for a more limited proposal [ ] c. No, do not provide GSoC sponsorship Background: Inkscape has participated in the Google Summer of Code Program for many years now. We've got a lot of good code, several good developers, and a good bit of cash from this participation. Each year Google also has a yearly get together after the summer is done. We've had on average 3 people interested in attending each year. This year is the 10th anniversary and Google is holding a special Mentor's Summit (Reunion). Google will sponsor the usual 2 delegates we get to send, funding up to $1100 each in travel expenses and room costs. In addition, Google will hold a lottery for others to attend, but at their own expense. Eligible participants for the lottery include admins, mentors, and students. We don't know how many lottery slots will be made available to us, but they estimate 220 total lottery winners covering a total of 190 mentoring organizations. So on average I guess we can expect something on the order of 1-3 people.

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Inkscape: books
by Johan Engelen 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

On 6-6-2014 17:01, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > (resend to everyone) > > I didn't receive the book - maybe it was lost in transit :/ :-( Bryce, can you follow up on this? thanks, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Inkscape: books
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 00:28 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote: > Hi all, > Could you give me some feedback on the book campaign? > Have you read the book, liked it, tossed it, wished for something else, > recommended it, have it next to your keyboard, gave it to a friend, > never looked at it, read front to back, read specific parts, etc.. > I got "Refactoring" and to be honest, other than reading the inspiring first chapter haven't used it much. It did motivate me to spend three weeks to completely rewrite the horrible style handling code. I also bought myself the other two books. "Effective C++" was my nightly reading for several weeks. I found it quite useful as I rewrote the style code. I also completely read "Tour of C++". I found it quite interesting (I can't wait until we can use C++11!) but I found it a bit superficial. I think the "C++ Programming Language" would have been more useful (years ago, I learned all about the STL using the 3rd edition and C++ in general from the 2nd edition). I do think the book campaign was a great idea and would support it becoming a yearly thing. Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Inkscape: books
by Martin Owens 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi Johan, Thanks for the prompt to write something about the book. I received "A Tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup. The book is most useful as a reference, explaining lots of aspects and designs that go into making C ++ and the ways people generally make programs in C++. What I found missing from the text was more practical experimentations. I find myself having to read it a few times over before any of the information seems to sink in and this might be become I'm a more practical learner. I would recommend the book to anyone as a reference, but perhaps a companion book or tutorial set to expand it's effectiveness. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 00:28 +0200, Johan Engelen wrote: > Have you read the book, liked it, tossed it, wished for something > else, > recommended it, have it next to your keyboard, gave it to a friend, > never looked at it, read front to back, read specific parts, etc..

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Fwd: Inkscape: books
by Johan Engelen 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

(sent a mail to all book receivers and CC'ed it to the list but it did not accept my email address. 2nd attempt) Hi all, Could you give me some feedback on the book campaign? Have you read the book, liked it, tossed it, wished for something else, recommended it, have it next to your keyboard, gave it to a friend, never looked at it, read front to back, read specific parts, etc.. Thanks! Johan

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google+ page management
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hello board, Since I'm not really involved with the project anymore, I only post relevant stuff from the Inkscape's Google+ page when I have time, which is once a month at best. I don't believe this is good for the project. Hence I'd like to transfer the ownership of the page to someone else who can be around regularly. Currently these people are managers of the page: Josh Andler, Tavmjong Bah, Uwe Schöler. ~suv was invited, but she never accepted the role. Please use your own judgment who should be owner (there can be only one), and who should gain (currently missing) management access, then let me know. Thanks. Alex

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Legal Statement for Output
by Martin Owens 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hello, I've been following a Gimp thread about the restrictions or limitations on the creative output in Gimp. Of course there is no restriction and our license covers the software not the output. But some companies are concerned or have questions. So the question is: Should we put a notice/disclaimer/information in the about screen stating in plain [local-language] that output from inkscape is not restricted/copyrighted/limited and is owned by the creator suject to local laws etc etc. I'm not sure of the wording and maybe the SFLC could help bake a nice sentence for multiple Free Software creative groups. Thoughts? Martin,

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[REFERENDUM] LGM Attendance 2014
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

The board is requested to vote on the following matter: Proposal: [ ] a. Cover travel and hotel expenses for up to 5 Inkscape developers to participate in LGM 2014, maximum of $500 per developer. [ ] b. Do not cover expenses for Inkscape developers to attend LGM. Background: LGM is an important meeting for the Libre graphics movement. This is a good place to showcase our upcoming release, Inkscape 0.91. Having Inkscape developers get together is always a good thing. Having Inkscape developers talking with others in the Libre Graphics movement might even be better. Unfortunately, it is probably too late to have a developer propose to give a talk on Inkscape at the meeting. -- Tavmjong Bah "Developer" is defined as someone listed in Inkscape's AUTHORS file as of Feb 19, 2013. -- Bryce Harrington

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[karen@...41...: reimbursement for travel on or before March 1]
by Bryce Harrington 31 May '14

31 May '14

----- Forwarded message from Karen Sandler <karen@...41...> ----- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 22:09:40 -0400 From: Karen Sandler <karen@...41...> To: project-reps@...41... Subject: reimbursement for travel on or before March 1 Reply-To: karen@...41... Hi project reps, We are finalizing our bookkeeping for the last fiscal year (which ended at the end of February). If someone in your project has traveled on or before March 1, 2014 please make sure they file for reimbursement by June 10 at the latest. According to the travel policy, there are 90 days to file without needing special approval from Conservancy's board of directors so hopefully there should be very few of these still pending! thanks! karen Karen Sandler Executive Director Software Freedom Conservancy ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-board] license incompatibility in inkscape 0.48.4
by Bryce Harrington 18 May '14

18 May '14

The .doc seems to not load in libreoffice; can anyone repost it as .txt? On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:42:34PM +0000, Kanefeyer, Jan wrote: > Hi, > > Attached you will find our fossology scan report. The report lists all licenses and the files where the licenses were found. > Wow that's huge. It looks like there's a bunch of false positives (e.g. we have a 'distribute' feature in the application, but this is detected as a licensing keyword), slight variations in wording or formatting of the same license over and over, copyrights claimed by various people, etc. But, I'm given to understand the only actual tangible problem here is with the Apache 2 code? The file lists as covered by Apache 2, two extensions and the SIOX code. For the extensions scour.py and yocto_css.py, you're right we should not be distributing these with the codebase. In 4.8.4 you can simply prune them; they're extensions and not required for compilation or use of the code. Looking at our codebase, I see a third extension svg_transform, with the same problem. rm inkscape-0.48.4/share/extensions/scour.* rm inkscape-0.48.4/share/extensions/yocto_css.* rm inkscape-0.48.4/share/extensions/svg_transform.* I'll take the action to raise this issue on the list to ensure it gets resolved for 0.91 and 0.48.5. For the SIOX files, siox.h and siox.cpp, both of those have already been rewritten to be GPL friendly: revno: 12370 fixes bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/357043 committer: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> branch nick: inkscape timestamp: Tue 2013-06-11 23:48:35 -0400 message: Fix Apache2 license conflict with GPL with re-license from SOIX upstream I don't know that this can be quite as easily ripped out as with the extensions. Perhaps the fix can be cherrypicked into 0.48.5? Josh, can you ask Martin if he'd be willing to apply this fix for the 0.48.5 branch? > In the meantime we checked the installer and found another issue. There are a lot of dll’s and executables (see attached binary list) which cannot be matched with the provided source code. E.g.: There is the file freetype6.dll. But we do not get any search result for freetype in the sources. freetype is a standard dependency for cairo and gtk (www.freetype.org). Skimming through the list I think the bulk of the other files are similar gtk dependencies. > Where does these binaries come from? > Are these files taken from other OSS? If yes, can you provide the licenses and sources for these OSS? Josh and Ted, can you follow up on this? I think as a general rule we should include a manifest file with the windows and osx binary packages that lists the component, their license, and source urls. Josh, that file you pointed to would be a good place to include this info; a column for license and a column for source url. Bryce > Regards > Jan > > > Von: Josh Andler [mailto:scislac@...23...] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014 17:22 > An: Ted Gould > Cc: Kanefeyer, Jan; bryce@...2...; goejendaag@...65...; tavmjong@...47...; Vogler, Andrea; Inkscape Board > Betreff: Re: license incompatibility in inkscape 0.48.4 > > More detailed info would definitely be helpful. I've also gone ahead and added the board list via CC since this was intended to go to the board. > Just to throw out there, I am aware of a couple things. At least Jon Cruz (I believe also Felipe Sanches) has committed multi-licensed code at some point. At least some of the MPL was also licensed as GPL. Regarding the GPL2 vs 3 issue, we still haven't run across anything that explicitly states GPL2 only and what is there says GPL2 or later... so according to discussions with SFC, we are technically still a GPL2 project just with some GPL3 code. > One example of a multi-licensed file can be viewed at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/src/ege… > Cheers, > Josh > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...1...<mailto:ted@...80....>> wrote: > Hello Jan, > > I personally am not aware of any licensing issues that we have in Inkscape, thanks for bringing this to our attention! Do you have a report that has more detail of which files/directories are which license so we can look into it with more detail? > > Thanks, > Ted > > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 12:43 +0000, Kanefeyer, Jan wrote: > Hello Inkscape board, > > We are planning to use inkscape. Thus we scanned the source code of inkscape 0.48.4 for OSS licenses. So we found out that inscape 0.48.4 includes the following licenses: > > GPL 2.0 > GPL 3.0 > LGPL 2.1 > MPL 1.1 > Apache License 2.0 > creativecommons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported > BSD-2-Clause > BSD-3-Clause > MIT > Zlib > W3C > > Unfortunately there are license incompatibilities between some on the licenses. E.g.: > Apache 2.0 <-> GPL 2.0 > GPL 2.0 <-> GPL 3.0 > MPL 1.1 <-> GPL 2.0 + GPL 3.0 + LGPL 2.1 + Apache License 2.0 > > This leads to a serious problem: The creator of the code published under Apache License 2.0 can prohibit a publishing of his code under GPL 2.0. So we are not allowed to publish it at all. > > So here are my questions: > Is the community aware of this problem? > Is there a general statement regarding this topic available? > Are there any counter measures planned/implemented? > > Kind Regards > Jan Kanefeyer > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Jan Kanefeyer > > Siemens AG > Infrastructure & Cities Sector > Smart Grid Division > Energy Automation > IC SG EA SOL D 1 > Humboldtstr. 59 > 90459 Nürnberg, Deutschland > Tel: +49 911 433-8044<tel:%2B49%20911%20433-8044> > mailto:jan.kanefeyer@...76... <mailto:jan.kanefeyer@...76...> > > Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Gerhard Cromme; Vorstand: Joe Kaeser, Vorsitzender; Roland Busch, Klaus Helmrich, Hermann Requardt, Siegfried Russwurm, Ralf P. Thomas; Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin und München, Deutschland; Registergericht: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, München, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 23691322 > > > > > DLLs : > ------ > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\bzip2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\freetype6.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\iconv.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\intl.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libatk-1.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libatkmm-1.6-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libcairo-2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libcairomm-1.0-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libexpat-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libfontconfig-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgio-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgiomm-2.4-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libglib-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libglibmm-2.4-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgmodule-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgobject-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgomp-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgthread-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libintl-8.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libjpeg-7.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\liblcms-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libMagick++-3.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libMagickCore-3.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libMagickWand-3.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libopenjpeg-2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpango-1.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpangomm-1.4-1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpixman-1-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpng12-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpng14-14.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpoppler-5.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpoppler-glib-4.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libpopt-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libsigc-2.0-0.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libtiff-3.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libwpd-0.9.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libwpd-stream-0.9.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libwpg-0.2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libxml2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\libxslt.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\mingwm10.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\msvcr70.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\msvcr71.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\perl58.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\pthreadGC2.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\python26.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\zlib1.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$PLUGINSDIR\InstallOptions.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$PLUGINSDIR\System.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\DLLs\sqlite3.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines\libpixmap.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines\libsvg.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines\libwimp.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-am-et.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-cedilla.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-cyrillic-translit.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-ime.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-inuktitut.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-ipa.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-multipress.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-thai.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-ti-er.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-ti-et.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\immodules\im-viqr.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-ani.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-bmp.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-gif.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-icns.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-ico.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-jpeg.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-pcx.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-png.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-pnm.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-ras.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-tga.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-tiff.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-wbmp.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-xbm.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\libpixbufloader-xpm.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\svg_loader.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\gtk-2.0\modules\libgail.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\share\tutorials\$PLUGINSDIR\LangDLL.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\share\tutorials\$PLUGINSDIR\md5dll.dll > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\share\tutorials\$PLUGINSDIR\UserInfo.dll > > > EXE files : > ----------- > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\gspawn-win32-helper.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\inkscape.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\inkview.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-6.0.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-6.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-7.1.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-8.0.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-9.0-amd64.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\$_OUTDIR\Lib\distutils\command\wininst-9.0.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\python\python.exe > \inkscape-0.48.4-1-win32_Installer\python\pythonw.exe

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