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-CESM1.5: Copyright Notice and Disclaimer
-
-The Community Earth System Model (CESM was developed in cooperation with 
-the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, 
-the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and 
-the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research National Center for Atmospheric Research.
-
-Except for the segregable components listed below, CESM is public domain software. 
-There may be other third party tools and libraries that are embedded, and 
-they may have their own copyright notices and terms.
-
-The following components are copyrighted and may only be used, modified, 
-or redistributed under the terms indicated below.
-
-Code		 Institution		Copyright	Terms of Use/Disclaimer
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-ESMF		 University of 		Copyright 	University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-		 Illinois/NCSA 		2002-2009, 
-					University of 
-					Illinois/NCSA 
-					Open Source 
-					License
-		 	
-POP,SCRIP,CICE	Los Alamos National	Copyright 2008	Los Alamos National Security, LLC 
-		Laboratory   		Los Alamos 
-					National 
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-CISM            NCAR/LANL/ORNL/SNL/     Copyright       GNU Lesser General Public License v. 3
-                LBNL/NYU/U. Bristol/    2004-2018,      CISM is free software: you can redistribute it
-                U. Edinburgh/           GNU Lesser      and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
-                U. Montana/U. Swansea   General Public  Lesser General Public License as published by the
-                                        License v. 3    Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
-                                                        License, or (at your option) any later version.
-		 
-AER RRTMG	Atmospheric		Copyright	AER RRTMG Copyright
-    		and			2002-2010, 
-		Environmental 		Atmospheric 
-		Research, Inc.		and 
-					Environmental 
-					Research, Inc.
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-MCT		Argonne			Copyright 2000,	MCT Copyright
-		National		2010, 
-		Laboratory		University of 
-					Chicago.
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-ICSSP		 N/A			Copyright 2003, ISCCP Simulator Software
-		 			2010, Steve 
-					Klein and Mark 
-					Webb
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-XML/Lite	Wadsack-Allen		Copyright 2001, The documentation for the Perl XML-Lite 
-		Digital Group		2010 	  	module is no longer available on-line. 
-					Wadsack-Allen 
-					Digital Group
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-Inf_NaN		Lahey			Copyright(c)	Copies of this source code, or standalone compiled 
-_Detection 	Computer		2003, Lahey	files derived from this source may not be sold 
-module		Systems, Inc.		Computer	without permission from Lahey Computers Systems. 
-					Systems, Inc.	All or part of this module may be freely incorporated 
-							into executable programs which are offered for sale. 
-							Otherwise, distribution of all or part of this file is 
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