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                      PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms
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Copyright Ruhr University Bochum - Medical Bioinformatics,
Ruhr University Bochum - Medizinisches Proteom-Center and European
Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), 2013-2024

This software is released under a three-clause BSD license:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
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Please note that some of the JAR files used by the PIA may not have the same
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make sure to obtain the original license for the JAR file in question.