LICENSE.txt

  VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

  Copyright (C) 2014-2024, Torbjorn Rognes, Frederic Mahe and Tomas Flouri
  All rights reserved.

  Contact: Torbjorn Rognes <torognes@ifi.uio.no>,
  Department of Informatics, University of Oslo,
  PO Box 1080 Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway

  This software is dual-licensed and available under a choice
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  General Public License version 3 or the BSD 2-Clause License.


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