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 Child Theme Project: [https://github.com/holger1411/understrap-child](https://github.com/holger1411/understrap-child)
 
+## License
+UnderStrap is released under the terms of the GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
+
+http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
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 ## Changelog
 
             - **0.4.0 Apr. 29th 2016 **