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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`.

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Other Projects
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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/