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  Thu Dec 8 15:02:41 2016 -0800
adding top level LICENSE file refs #13978

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+Copyright (C) 2001 UC Regents
+
+LICENSE files in subdirectories overrides the text of this LICENSE file.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or non-commercial
+entity obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
+limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
+sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
+the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
+IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
+CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+Commercial users should contact kent@soe.ucsc.edu for access to other modules
+including jkOwnSrc and blat.
+
+Commercial users interested in the UCSC Genome Browser in particular please see
+    http://genome.ucsc.edu/license/.
+
+The code in /src/htslib is distributed with two licenses as noted in the LICENSE
+file in that directory.