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Elephant: an object-oriented database for Common Lisp.

Homepage: http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant

Elephant users are granted the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser GNU Public License http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html, also known as the LLGPL.

Copyrights include:

Copyright (c) 2004 by Andrew Blumberg and Ben Lee

Copyright (c) 2006 by Ian Eslick

Copyright (c) 2005,2006 by Robert L. Read

Portions of this program (namely the C unicode string sorter) are derived from IBM's ICU:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

whose copyright and license follows the GPL below.

ICU License - ICU 1.8.1 and later COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE

Copyright (c) 1995-2003 International Business Machines Corporation and others All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies of the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

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