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 <p>WordPress is the official continuation of <a href="http://cafelog.com/">b2/caf&#233;log</a>, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/">WordPress developers</a>. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider <a href="http://wordpress.org/donate/" title="Donate to WordPress">donating</a>.</p>
 
 <h1>License</h1>
-<p>WordPress is released under the <abbr title="GNU Public License">GPL</abbr>v2 (see <a href="license.txt">license.txt</a>).</p>
+<p>WordPress is released under the <abbr title="GNU Public License">GPL</abbr> (see <a href="license.txt">license.txt</a>).</p>
 
 
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