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+> [!WARNING]
+> **Qiskit Optimization is no longer officially supported by IBM**.
+> Like any other Apache 2 licensed code, you are free to use it or/and extend it, but please be aware that it is under your own risk.
+
 **Qiskit Optimization** is an open-source framework that covers the whole range from high-level modeling of optimization
 problems, with automatic conversion of problems to different required representations, to a suite
 of easy-to-use quantum optimization algorithms that are ready to run on classical simulators,