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 ## License
 
-This software is distributed under the Lesser GNU Plublic License v2.1 (LGPL 2.1).
+This software is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL 2.1).
 
 This software is based on the [QUT EV3 MATLAB Toolkit](https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/QUT+EV3+MATLAB+toolkit) 
 by Peter Corke et al. of Queensland University.