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+Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Nikolaus Gebhardt
+
+  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
+  warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
+  arising from the use of this software.
+
+  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
+  including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
+  freely, subject to the following restrictions:
+
+  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
+     claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
+     in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
+     appreciated but is not required.
+  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
+     misrepresented as being the original software.
+  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
+
+  Please note that the Irrlicht Engine is based in part on the work of the
+  Independent JPEG Group, the zlib, libPng and aesGladman. This means that if you use
+  the Irrlicht Engine in your product, you must acknowledge somewhere in your
+  documentation that you've used the IJPG code. It would also be nice to mention
+  that you use the Irrlicht Engine, the zlib, libPng and aesGladman. See the 
+  corresponding license files for further informations. It is also possible to disable
+  usage of those additional libraries by defines in the IrrCompileConfig.h header and 
+  recompiling the engine.
diff --git a/doc/irrlicht-license.txt b/doc/irrlicht-license.txt
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-Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Nikolaus Gebhardt
-
-  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
-  warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
-  arising from the use of this software.
-
-  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
-  including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
-  freely, subject to the following restrictions:
-
-  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
-     claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
-     in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
-     appreciated but is not required.
-  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
-     misrepresented as being the original software.
-  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
-
-  Please note that the Irrlicht Engine is based in part on the work of the
-  Independent JPEG Group, the zlib, libPng and aesGladman. This means that if you use
-  the Irrlicht Engine in your product, you must acknowledge somewhere in your
-  documentation that you've used the IJPG code. It would also be nice to mention
-  that you use the Irrlicht Engine, the zlib, libPng and aesGladman. See the 
-  corresponding license files for further informations. It is also possible to disable
-  usage of those additional libraries by defines in the IrrCompileConfig.h header and 
-  recompiling the engine.