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+Koha 3 - the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
+integrated library system.
+
+30 December 2007 - Joshua Ferraro <jmf AT liblime DOT com>
+
+Koha is distributed under the GNU GPL. Please read the file LICENSE for
+more details.
+
+To install or upgrade Koha, please see the INSTALL file.
+
+Please report any bugs to the koha mailing lists or bug tracker and we
+will try to fix them in a future release. The main koha web site is
+http://www.koha.org/