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 Some parts of the code follow [GNU style](http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html); some parts of the code follow [K&R style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#K.26R_style) -- mostly depending on who wrote the original version. **Above all else, be consistent with what you modify, and keep whitespace changes to a minimum when modifying existing source.** For new code, the majority tends to prefer GNU style, so if you don't care much, use that.
 
-All contributors need to either add standard header for license info (on new files) or send us their wish under which of licenses they would like their code to be published under.
-[BSD-3-Clause](http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
-[LGPL-2.1+](http://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1+)
-[GPL-2.0+](http://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0+)
+All contributors need to either add standard header for license info (on new files) or send us their wish under which of licenses they would like their code to be published under :[BSD-3-Clause](http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) ,[LGPL-2.1+](http://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1+) or [GPL-2.0+](http://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0+)