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+  NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover the so-called "standalone"
+applications that use U-Boot services by means of the jump table
+provided by U-Boot exactly for this purpose - this is merely
+considered normal use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the
+heading of "derived work". Also note that the GPL below is
+copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the instance of code
+that it refers to (the U-Boot source code) is copyrighted by me and
+others who actually wrote it. -- Wolfgang Denk
+
+=======================================================================
+
 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 		       Version 2, June 1991