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1Contributions to sigma_dut
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4This software is distributed under a permissive open source license to
5allow it to be used in any projects, whether open source or proprietary.
6Contributions to the project are welcome and it is important to maintain
7clear record of contributions and terms under which they are licensed.
8To help with this, following procedure is used to allow acceptance and
9recording of the terms.
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11All contributions are expected to be licensed under the Clear BSD
12license (see below) and will not be accepted if any contrary licensing
13which could affect the license of this project are submitted.
14Acknowledgment of the terms is tracked through inclusion of
15Signed-off-by tag in the contributions at the end of the commit log
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17Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) version 1.1 terms (see below; also
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20To indicate your acceptance of Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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23for each contribution you make to the project:
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25Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
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27using your real name. Pseudonyms or anonymous contributions cannot
28unfortunately be accepted.
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33Developer Certificate of Origin
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44Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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48(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
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52(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
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56    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
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67    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
68    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
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72
73The license terms used for sigma_dut files
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75
76Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Atheros Communications, Inc.
77Copyright (c) 2011-2017, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
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81Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
82modification, are permitted (subject to the limitations in the
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85* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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