NSApplication orderFrontStandardAboutPanel: Making my about panel slightly less standard

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What are my options, if any, of adding additional, arbitrary data to the standard Cocoa about dialog that is displayed by an NSApplication when it receives a orderFrontStandardAboutPanel message.

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