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+XChart is developed by Knowm Inc. members and the open-source community.
+
+We thank all of our contributors: https://github.com/timmolter/xchart/graphs/contributors 
+
+For the detailed history of contributions of a given file, try
+
+    git blame file
+
+To see line-by-line credits and to see the change log even across renames and rewrites, try
+
+    git log --follow file
+
+Copyright is held by the original contributor according to the versioning history; see NOTICE.
+
+The following list of authors was automatically generated from the XChart project's git repo with the command:
+
+    git log --format='%aN' | sort -u
+
+Alex Nugent
+Bryan Cardillo
+Chiamh
+Christoffer SOOP
+Hwaipy Li
+Martin Crawford
+Michael Stummvoll
+Nicolas Roduit
+Niklas Polke
+Ross Jourdain
+Thomas Neidhart
+Tim Molter
+rebaomi
+ruX[Ruslan Zaharov]
+timmolter
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+Copyright 2015 Knowm Inc. (http://knowm.org) and contributors.
+Copyright 2011-2015 Xeiam LLC (http://xeiam.com) and contributors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.