Replace your company name (here, ACME inc.) and your own name (here, John Doe) throughout the following template.

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Gotham city, May 9th, 2005

To whom it may concern:

In behalf of ACME inc., I hereby declare that:

•	The ACME inc. employee John Doe is allowed to contribute code to the QuantLib project (http://www.quantlib.org);

•	ACME inc. licenses such code under the terms of the QuantLib license, available at <http://quantlib.org/license.shtml> and attached here; by doing this, ACME inc. renounces any claims regarding the use of such code by third parties under the terms of the QuantLib license;

•	the copyright of the contributed code will be held (choose the correct one and delete the others and this parenthesis) by ACME inc./by John Doe/jointly by ACME inc. and John Doe.

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QuantLib is
    Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Ferdinando Ametrano
    Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 StatPro Italia srl

    Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Decillion Pty(Ltd)
    Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Nicolas Di Césaré
    Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Neil Firth
    Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Sadruddin Rejeb
    Copyright (C) 2003 Niels Elken Sønderby

    Copyright (C) 2004 FIMAT Group
    Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Roman Gitlin
    Copyright (C) 2004 M-Dimension Consulting Inc.
    Copyright (C) 2004 Mike Parker
    Copyright (C) 2004 Walter Penschke
    Copyright (C) 2004 Gianni Piolanti
    Copyright (C) 2003 Kawanishi Tomoya
    Copyright (C) 2004 Jeff Yu

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•	Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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•	Neither the names of the copyright holders nor the names of the QuantLib Group and its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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