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+Source code of this module is copy-pasted from https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/plugins/kotlin/common
+(not the whole module is copy-pasted but only parts which are required for scripting)
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+Copy-paste can be avoided by using artifact from https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/kotlin-ide/org/jetbrains/kotlin/common/
+but we decided that copy-pasting is more appropriate in this situation