LICENSE

Node's license follows:

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Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors. All rights reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
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IN THE SOFTWARE.

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This license applies to all parts of Node that are not externally
maintained libraries.

The externally maintained libraries used by Node are:

  - v8, located at deps/v8. v8 is copyright Google, Inc, and released
    under a BSD license.

  - libev, located at deps/libev, and libeio, located at deps/libeio. libev
    and libeio are copyright Marc Alexander Lehmann, and dual-licensed
    under the MIT license and GPL2.

  - WAF build system, located at tools/waf. WAF is copyright Thomas Nagy,
    and released under the MIT license.

  - The SCONS build system, located at tools/scons. SCONS is copyright
    the SCONS Foundation and released under the MIT license.

  - C-Ares, an asynchronous DNS client, located at deps/c-ares. C-Ares is
    copyright the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, authored by
    Greg Hudson, Daniel Stenberg and others, and released under the MIT
    license.

  - Node, optionally, links to OpenSSL, it is located at deps/openssl.
    OpenSSL is cryptographic software written by Eric Young
    (eay@cryptsoft.com) to provide SSL/TLS encryption. OpenSSL is copyright
    The OpenSSL Project and released under the OpenSSL license.

  - tools/doctool/markdown.js is copyright 2009-2010 Dominic Baggott and Ash
    Berli and released under the MIT license.

  - HTTP Parser, located at deps/http_parser, is a small C library
    copyright Ryan Lienhart Dahl and released under the MIT license.

  - src/platform_darwin_proctitle.cc, has code taken from the Chromium
    project copyright Google Inc. and released under a BSD license.

  - tools/closure_linter is copyright The Closure Linter Authors and
    Google Inc. and released under the Apache License, version 2.0.

  - tools/cpplint.py is copyright Google Inc. and released under a
    BSD license.

  - lib/buffer_ieee754.js is copyright 2008 Fair Oaks Labs, Inc. and released
    under the New BSD license.

  - lib/punycode.js is copyright 2011 Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
    and released under the MIT license.

  - tools/gyp GYP is a meta-build system copyright 2009 Google Inc and
    licensed under the three clause BSD license. See tools/gyp/LICENSE.

  - deps/zlib copyright 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
    licensed under a permissive free software license. See
    deps/zlib/LICENSE.

  - deps/npm npm is a package manager program copyright 2009, 2010, 2011
    Isaac Z. Schlueter and licensed under MIT. npm includes several
    subpackages MIT or Apache licenses, see deps/npm/LICENSE for more
    information. npm is included in the Node .msi and .pkg distributions
    but not in the Node binary itself.