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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+
+The scripts in this folder are a copy of the scripts in the projectscratch
+folder. They should be kept in sync, deploy_scratch.sh is a helper script
+to copy them over.