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License
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The software is provided under a BSD-3-Clause license.

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    Copyright (c) <year> <owner>. All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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SPDX Identifiers
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    SPDX-License-Identifier:    BSD-3-Clause

This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX
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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 `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.

.. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org
.. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/
.. _LLVM compiler-rt: https://compiler-rt.llvm.org/