2 OpenPrinting CUPS Filters License Agreements
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6 Copyright 1993-2007 Easy Software Products
7 Copyright 2007-2011 Apple Inc.
8 Copyright 2012 Canonical Ltd.
9 Copyright 2006-2012 BBR Inc.
10 Copyright 2008-2012 Till Kamppeter
11 Copyright 2008,2012 Tobias Hoffmann
12 Copyright 2003 Robert Sander
13 Copyright 2003-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
14 Copyright 2003-2006 Tim Waugh
15 Copyright 2012 Franz Pförtsch
16 Copyright 2012 Tomáš Chvátal
17 Copyright 2010 Neil 'Superna' Armstrong
20 The filters and backends which were part of CUPS formerly
21 (commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx,
22 rastertopclx, parallel, serial) and also imagetopdf, pstopdf, and
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