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Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
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Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
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(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
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by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
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it.
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