Folks,
This has gone out with Balloon 2 boards, and of course there has been no
reaction to it.  It is apparently based on Open Source ideas.
We inherited is fromn the LART people at TU Delft

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In the last version Copyright Holder read 'Steve Wiseman'.

Make what you will of it.  

LvS
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