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   2 General observations
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   5 License
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   8 The code is licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2 upgrading to GPL 3
   9 would require consent from all former contributors. Copyright years of files
  10 have not been consistently incremented/updated on changes.
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  12 Languages
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  15 The code base is a mix of Perl, Shell and PHP code. Most of the code is
  16 implemented in PHP.
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  18 Code structure
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  21 Comments and inline documentation
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  24 The code base is not documented in a good way, there are neither class nor
  25 method or function comments. Comments are just used for the license header
  26 in most of the files.