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+2009-03-27 LEMON joins to the COIN-OR initiative
+
+        COIN-OR (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research,
+        http://www.coin-or.org) project is an initiative to spur the
+        development of open-source software for the operations research
+        community.
+
 2009-03-26 Version 1.0.3 released
 
         Bugfix release, mainly targeting better AIX/xlC and WIN32