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-..
-    Copyright (C) 2019 CERN.
-    Copyright (C) 2019 Northwestern University.
-
-    Invenio App RDM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
-
-Authors
-=======
-
-- CERN
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-..
-    Copyright (C) 2019 CERN.
-    Copyright (C) 2019 Northwestern University.
-
-    Invenio App RDM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
-
-
-.. include:: ../AUTHORS.rst