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 Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Savoir-faire Linux Inc.
 
-Licenced under the GNU General Public License version 3 (see COPYING for the full licence).
+OpenDHT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+See COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html for the full GPLv3 licence.
 
 This project is independent from another project called OpenDHT (Sean Rhea. Ph.D. Thesis, 2005), now extinct.