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 Qt Creator includes the following third-party components,
 we thank the authors who made this possible:
 
+### KSyntaxHighlighting
+
+  Syntax highlighting engine for Kate syntax definitions
+
+  This is a stand-alone implementation of the Kate syntax highlighting
+  engine. It's meant as a building block for text editors as well as
+  for simple highlighted text rendering (e.g. as HTML), supporting both
+  integration with a custom editor as well as a ready-to-use
+  QSyntaxHighlighter sub-class.
+
+  Distributed under the:
+
+  MIT License
+
+  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+  the following conditions:
+
+  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+  in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+  CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+  TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+  SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+  The source code of KSyntaxHighlighting can be found here:
+      https://cgit.kde.org/syntax-highlighting.git
+      QtCreator/src/libs/3rdparty/syntax-highlighting
+      https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/libs/3rdparty/syntax-highlighting
+
 ### Clazy
 
   https://github.com/KDE/clazy