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Copyright (c) 2002-<span class="current-year">&nbsp;</span> [EPFL](https://lamp.epfl.ch/)<br>
Copyright (c) 2011-<span class="current-year">&nbsp;</span> [Lightbend, Inc](https://www.lightbend.com/).

Scala is licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) (the "License").

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Scala includes software with other licenses. See the NOTICE file distributed 
with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

NOTE: Versions of Scala distributed prior to December 2018 were licensed under the [BSD 3-Clause License](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause). The license change was [announced in May 2018](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/license-change.html).