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+SJCL used to be in the public domain.  Now it's:
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+Copyright 2009-2010 Emily Stark, Mike Hamburg, Dan Boneh, Stanford University.
+
+This is for liability reasons.  (Speaking of which, SJCL comes with NO
+WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, express or implied, to the limit of applicable
+law.)
+
+SJCL is dual-licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0 or higher, and a
+2-clause BSD license.  You may use SJCL under the terms of either of
+these licenses.  For your convenience, the GPL versions 2.0 and 3.0
+and the 2-clause BSD license are included here.  Additionally, you may
+serve "crunched" copies of sjcl (i.e. those with comments removed,
+and other transformations to reduce code size) without any copyright
+notice.
+
+SJCL includes JsDoc toolkit, YUI compressor, Closure compressor,
+JSLint and the CodeView template in its build system.  These programs'
+copyrights are owned by other people.  They are distributed here under
+the MPL, MIT, BSD, Apache and JSLint licenses.  Codeview is "free for
+download" but has no license attached; it is Copyright 2010 Wouter Bos.
+
+The BSD license is (almost?) strictly more permissive, but the
+additionally licensing under the GPL allows us to use OCB 2.0 code
+royalty-free (at least, if OCB 2.0's creator Phil Rogaway has anything
+to say about it).  Note that if you redistribute SJCL under a license
+other than the GPL, you or your users may need to pay patent licensing
+fees for OCB 2.0.
+
+There may be patents which apply to SJCL other than Phil Rogaway's OCB
+patents.  We suggest that you consult legal counsel before using SJCL
+in a commercial project.