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 License
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-© Contributors, 2016. Licensed under an [Apache-2](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/LICENSE) license.
+© Contributors, 2019. Licensed under an [Apache-2](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/LICENSE) license.
 
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