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+= Spring Statemachine
+
+Spring Statemachine aims to provide a common infrastructure to work
+with statemachine concepts in Spring applications.
+
+= License
+
+Spring Session is Open Source software released under the
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[Apache 2.0 license].
+
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-# spring-statemachine