diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -3,23 +3,24 @@ Copyright © 2010-2012 Intel Corporation
 Copyright © 2010-2011 Benjamin Franzke
 Copyright © 2011-2012 Collabora, Ltd.
  
-Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
-documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
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-written prior permission.  The copyright holders make no representations
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-
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-OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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+and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 
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