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 Copyright Holger Krekel and others, 2004-2016.
-Licensed under the MIT license.
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+Distributed under the terms of the `MIT`_ license, pytest is free and open source software.
+
+.. _`MIT`: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/LICENSE