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Apache License 

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Open Source Software Licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0:
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1. transformers
Copyright 2018- The Hugging Face team. All rights reserved.
Source code of this software can be obtained from: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v4.30.2/

2. diffusers
Copyright 2023 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
Source code of this software can be obtained from: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/v0.25.0/

A copy of Apache 2.0 has been included in this file.



Open Source Software Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License:
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1. torchvision
Copyright (c) Soumith Chintala 2016, 
All rights reserved.

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Open Source Software Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License and Other Licenses of the Third-Party Components therein:
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1. torch
Copyright (c) 2016-     Facebook, Inc            (Adam Paszke)
Copyright (c) 2014-     Facebook, Inc            (Soumith Chintala)
Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Idiap Research Institute (Ronan Collobert)
Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Deepmind Technologies    (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 NEC Laboratories America (Koray Kavukcuoglu)
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 NYU                      (Clement Farabet)
Copyright (c) 2006-2010 NEC Laboratories America (Ronan Collobert, Leon Bottou, Iain Melvin, Jason Weston)
Copyright (c) 2006      Idiap Research Institute (Samy Bengio)
Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Idiap Research Institute (Ronan Collobert, Samy Bengio, Johnny Mariethoz)

A copy of the BSD 3-Clause License is included in this file.

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Open Source Software Licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License:
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1. Llama 2
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