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+Package: ALICE HLT
+
+This package implements the ALICE High Level Trigger framework.
+
+/**************************************************************************
+ * Copyright(c) 1998-1999, ALICE Experiment at CERN, All rights reserved. *
+ * *
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its *
+ * documentation strictly for non-commercial purposes is hereby granted *
+ * without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all *
+ * copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice *
+ * appear in the supporting documentation. The authors make no claims *
+ * about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is *
+ * provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. *
+ * *
+ * Also see files ChangeLog and THANKS. *
+ * *
+ **************************************************************************/
+
+This packages is maintained by Matthias.Richter@ift.uib.no
+
+Authors:
+BASE: HLT base library by Timm M. Steinbeck and Matthias Richter
+
+SampleLib: Examples by Timm M. Steinbeck and Matthias Richter
+
+TPCLib: The original TPC code was written by Anders S Vestbo and Constantin
+Loizides and was checked in under HLT/src. The code has been adapted to the
+framework by Timm. Contributions by Cvetan Cheshkov, Jochen Theader and
+Matthias Richter.
+
+Further author notice will be added in conjunction with new modules.
+
+Thanks to Christian H. Christensen for help with autotools and macros.
+