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 *   TV-NOW : The Live TV Streaming Virtual Headend Server                    *
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 * Copyright (C) 2012- Brad Love : b-rad at next dimension dot cc
 *    Next Dimension Innovations : http://nextdimension.cc
 *    http://b-rad.cc
 * Copyright 2006 - 2011 Intel Corporation
 *
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 *   TV-Now is an Open Source DLNA Media Server. TV-Now's purpose is
 *   to serve Live TV (and recorded content) over the local network
 *   to televisions, computers, media players, tablets, and consoles.
 *   TV-Now delivers EPG data in the DLNA container for compatible
 *   clients and also offers an html5+jquery tv player with full EPG.
 *   TV-Now uses the libdvbtee library as its backend.
 *
 *   TV-Now is a Virtual Headend reference implementation.
 *   http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001330156
 *
 *   #UnlockTheBox
 *
 *
 * TV-Now has the following features:
 *   - Works with any device in dvb-core
 *   - DLNA Media Server offering raw live TV streaming
 *   - PVR / scheduled recording API
 *   - Recorded TV playback
 *   - Tuner hardware shared when possible
 *   - EPG / guide data display
 *   - HTML5 TV player w/ EPG
 *
 * TV-Now is compatible with:
 *   - ATSC
 *   - Clear QAM
 *   - DVB-T
 *
 *
 * TV-Now has a public GPLv3 git repo, but an Apache 2.0 version suitable
 * for commercial licensing is privately maintained as the master tree
 * To read further into this and how it affects contributions see notes 1 and 2
 *
 *
 * TV-Now is originally based off Intel's DLNA microstack rev 1.0.1298
 * TV-Now is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Note: All additional terms from Section 7 of GPLv3 apply to this software.
 * This includes requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal
 * notices or author attributions in the material or in the Appropriate
 * Legal Notices displayed by this software.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with TV-Now.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 * 1) An Apache 2.0 licensed version of this software is privately maintained
 * for licensing to interested commercial parties. Apache 2.0 license is
 * compatible with the GPLv3, which allows the Apache 2.0 version to be
 * included in proprietary systems, while keeping the public GPLv3 version
 * completely open source. GPLv3 can NOT be re-licensed as Apache 2.0, since
 * Apache 2.0 license is only a subset of GPLv3. To inquire about licensing
 * the commercial version of TV-Now contact:  tv-now at nextdimension dot cc
 *
 * 2) Note about contributions and patch submissions:
 *  The commercial Apache 2.0 version of TV-Now is used as the master.
 *  The GPLv3 version of TV-Now will be identical to the Apache 2.0 version.
 *  All contributions and patches are licensed under Apache 2.0
 *  By submitting a patch you implicitly agree to
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
 *  You retain ownership and when merged the license will be upgraded to GPLv3.
 *
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