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Iris copyright, licensing and contributors
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Iris code
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All Iris source code, unless explicitly stated, is |copy| ``British Crown copyright, 2012`` and 
is licensed under the **GNU Lesser General Public License** as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
You should find all source files with the following header:

.. admonition:: Code License

    |copy| British Crown Copyright 2010 - 2012, Met Office
    
    This file is part of Iris.
    
    Iris is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.
    
    Iris is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
    
    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
    along with Iris.  If not, see `<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>`_. 


Iris documentation and examples
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All documentation, examples and sample data found on this website and in source repository 
are licensed under the UK's Open Government Licence:

.. admonition:: Documentation, example and data license
 
    |copy| British Crown copyright, 2012.
    
    You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of 
    charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the 
    `Open Government Licence <http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence>`_. 
    We encourage users to establish hypertext links to this website.
    
    Any email enquiries regarding the use and re-use of this information resource should be 
    sent to: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk.


Contributors
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Iris has been blessed with contributions from a wealth of individuals, without whom Iris 
wouldn't be where it is today:

 * `Richard Hattersley <https://github.com/rhattersley>`_ 
 
     Technical lead and core developer
     
 * `Byron Blay <https://github.com/bblay>`_

     Core developer
     
 * `Ed Campbell <https://github.com/esc24>`_

     Core developer
     
 * `Philip Elson <https://github.com/pelson>`_

     Core developer
 
 * `Bill Little <https://github.com/bjlittle>`_

     Core developer
 
 * `Mark Hedley <https://github.com/marqh>`_
 * Patrick Peglar
 * Andrew Munslow