COPYRIGHT STATUS
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This code is

  Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Ulrike Groemping

All code is subject to the GNU General Public License, Version 2. 
License texts are available at the homepage of the R-project under http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/. 

Distribution of this Code is 
       geographically limited to exclude the US, 
according to point 8 of the rules laid out in GPL 2  and for convenience repeated here:

  8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
countries not thus excluded.  In such case, this License incorporates
the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

