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-<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause -->
-<!-- Copyright (c) Contributors to the OpenEXR Project -->
-
 Copyright (c) Contributors to the OpenEXR Project. All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: