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Copyright Neovim contributors. All rights reserved.
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Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for
parts of Neovim that were contributed under the Vim license (see below).
Neovim's license follows:
====
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The above license applies to all parts of Neovim except (1) parts that were
contributed under the Vim license and (2) externally maintained libraries.
The externally maintained libraries used by Neovim are:
- Klib: a Generic Library in C. MIT/X11 license.
- Lua: MIT license
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- LuaJIT: a Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua. Copyright Mike Pall. MIT license.
- Luv: Apache 2.0 license
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- libtermkey: MIT license
- libuv. Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors. Node.js license.
- libvterm: MIT license
- lua-cjson: MIT license
- lua-compat: MIT license
- tree-sitter: MIT license
- unibilium: LGPL v3
- xdiff: LGPL v2
====
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