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+Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
+
+Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Andrey Lugovskoy
+
+You are free to:
+
+  Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
+  Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material
+
+Under the following terms:
+
+  Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the
+  license, and indicate if changes were made.
+
+  NonCommercial - You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
+  You may not sell, rent, sublicense, or offer this software as a paid
+  service or part of a paid service. Commercial use requires explicit
+  written permission from the copyright holder.
+
+No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological
+measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
+
+Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode