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+License
+=======
+
+The software is provided under a BSD-3-Clause license (below). Contributions to
+this project are accepted under the same license with developer sign-off as
+described in the :ref:`contributor_guide`.
+
+::
+
+    Copyright (c) [XXXX-]YYYY, <OWNER>. All rights reserved.
+
+    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
+    are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+    -  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+    list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+    -  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+    and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+    -  Neither the name of Arm nor the names of its contributors may be used to
+    endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
+    prior written permission.
+
+    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
+    ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+    WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+    DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
+    ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
+    (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+    LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
+    ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+    (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
+    SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+SPDX Identifiers
+----------------
+
+Individual files contain the following tag instead of the full license text.
+
+::
+
+    SPDX-License-Identifier:    BSD-3-Clause
+
+This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX
+License Identifiers that are here available: http://spdx.org/licenses/
+
+
+Other Projects
+--------------
+
+This project contains code from other projects as listed below. The original
+license text is included in those source files.
+
+-  The libc source code is derived from `FreeBSD`_ and `SCC`_. FreeBSD uses
+   various BSD licenses, including BSD-3-Clause and BSD-2-Clause. The SCC code
+   is used under the BSD-3-Clause license with the author's permission.
+
+-  The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed
+   (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of
+   the BSD-2-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under
+   the terms of both licenses.
+
+-  The LLVM compiler-rt source code is disjunctively dual licensed
+   (NCSA OR MIT). It is used by this project under the terms of the NCSA
+   license (also known as the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License),
+   which is a permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. Any
+   contributions to this code must be made under the terms of both licenses.
+
+-  The zlib source code is licensed under the Zlib license, which is a
+   permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause.
+
+-  Some STMicroelectronics platform source code is disjunctively dual licensed
+   (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of the
+   BSD-3-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under the
+   terms of both licenses.
+
+.. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org
+.. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/
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