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+# Maintenance Terms
+
+Current as of 2025
+
+The code, text and data in this repository are provided as-is under the terms of the repository's LICENSE file, as a gift to the commons and the common good. In providing this software as-is, its author(s) admit no further obligations from anyone using the software for any reason, particularly with respect to:
+
+ * Response time
+ * Change review and integration
+ * Disclosure schedules
+ * Discretionary, proprietary or otherwise secretive communications
+ * Any other non-contractual obligations or conventions, regardless of their presumed urgency or severity
+
+The author(s) hope you find it valuable on those terms.