Licenses of Third-Party Libraries
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DSpace uses third-party libraries which may be distributed under
different licenses than specified in our LICENSE file. Information
about these licenses is detailed in the LICENSES_THIRD_PARTY file at
the root of the source tree. You must agree to the terms of these
licenses, in addition to the DSpace source code license, in order to
use this software.

Licensing Notices
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[July 2019] DuraSpace joined with LYRASIS (another 501(c)3 organization) in July 2019.
LYRASIS holds the copyrights of DuraSpace.

[July 2009] Fedora Commons joined with the DSpace Foundation and began operating under
the new name DuraSpace in July 2009.  DuraSpace holds the copyrights of
the DSpace Foundation, Inc.

[July 2007] The DSpace Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation established in July 2007
with a mission to promote and advance the dspace platform enabling management,
access and preservation of digital works. The Foundation was able to transfer
the legal copyright from Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) to the  DSpace Foundation in October 2007. Many
of the files in the source code may contain a copyright statement stating HP
and MIT possess the copyright, in these instances please note that the copy
right has transferred to the DSpace foundation, and subsequently to DuraSpace.
