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   1 License
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   3
   4 The software is provided under a BSD-3-Clause license (below). Contributions to
   5 this project are accepted under the same license with developer sign-off as
   6 described in the :ref:`Contributor's Guide`.
   7
   8 ::
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  10     Copyright (c) [XXXX-]YYYY, <OWNER>. All rights reserved.
  11
  12     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
  13     are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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  15     -  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
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  18     -  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
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  22     -  Neither the name of Arm nor the names of its contributors may be used to
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  24     prior written permission.
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  26     THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
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  37 SPDX Identifiers
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  44     SPDX-License-Identifier:    BSD-3-Clause
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  46 This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX
  47 License Identifiers that are here available: http://spdx.org/licenses/
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  49
  50 Other Projects
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  52
  53 This project contains code from other projects as listed below. The original
  54 license text is included in those source files.
  55
  56 -  The libc source code is derived from `FreeBSD`_ and `SCC`_. FreeBSD uses
  57    various BSD licenses, including BSD-3-Clause and BSD-2-Clause. The SCC code
  58    is used under the BSD-3-Clause license with the author's permission.
  59
  60 -  The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed
  61    (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of
  62    the BSD-2-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under
  63    the terms of both licenses.
  64
  65 -  The LLVM compiler-rt source code is disjunctively dual licensed
  66    (NCSA OR MIT). It is used by this project under the terms of the NCSA
  67    license (also known as the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License),
  68    which is a permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. Any
  69    contributions to this code must be made under the terms of both licenses.
  70
  71 -  The zlib source code is licensed under the Zlib license, which is a
  72    permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause.
  73
  74 -  Some STMicroelectronics platform source code is disjunctively dual licensed
  75    (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of the
  76    BSD-3-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under the
  77    terms of both licenses.
  78
  79 .. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org
  80 .. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/