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+    <name>The Tor Project</name>
+    <url>https://www.torproject.org</url>
+  </publisher>
+  <license>
+    <name>BSD</name>
+    <url>http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php</url>
+  </license>
+  <identity>Tor</identity>
+  <version>@VERSION@</version>
+  <copyright>2007 The Tor Project, Inc.</copyright>
+  <description>Anonymity Online</description>
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+        <url type="http" location="ca">http://tor.depthstrike.com/dist/</url>
+        <url type="http" location="ca">http://tor.hermetix.org/dist/</url>
+        <url type="http" location="ch">http://tor.boinc.ch/dist/</url>
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