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@@ -27,10 +27,7 @@ The installation instructions are included in the user manual.
 DISTRIBUTION
 
 Artemis may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License,
-and should run on any system with a recent version of Java.  The development
-of Artemis has been funded by the Wellcome Trust's Beowulf Genomics
-initiative, through its support of the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at The Sanger
-Centre.
+and should run on any system with a recent version of Java.  
 
 For information on how to get Artemis see this web page:
   http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/
@@ -40,7 +37,7 @@ or go straight to the ftp directory at:
 
 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002  Genome Research Limited
+Copyright (C) 1998-2009  Genome Research Limited
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License