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1 XWiki is distributed under the [[LGPL>>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html]] license version 2.1.
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17 This product includes/uses software developed by 'an unknown organization'
18 - javax.inject (http://code.google.com/p/atinject/)
19 - jdom
20 - HtmlCleaner (http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net/)
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30 - Xerces2 Java Parser (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j)
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34 - XWiki Commons - Configuration - API (http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-configuration/xwiki-commons-configuration-api)
35 - XWiki Commons - XML (http://xwiki.org/xwiki-commons-pom/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-xml)
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