CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions to sigma_dut
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This software is distributed under a permissive open source license to
allow it to be used in any projects, whether open source or proprietary.
Contributions to the project are welcome and it is important to maintain
clear record of contributions and terms under which they are licensed.
To help with this, following procedure is used to allow acceptance and
recording of the terms.

All contributions are expected to be licensed under the Clear BSD
license (see below) and will not be accepted if any contrary licensing
which could affect the license of this project are submitted.
Acknowledgment of the terms is tracked through inclusion of
Signed-off-by tag in the contributions at the end of the commit log
message. This tag indicates that the contributor agrees with the
Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) version 1.1 terms (see below; also
available from http://developercertificate.org/).

To indicate your acceptance of Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
terms and licensing of the contribution under the Clear BSD license
terms, please add the following line to the end of the commit message
for each contribution you make to the project:

Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>

using your real name. Pseudonyms or anonymous contributions cannot
unfortunately be accepted.


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Developer Certificate of Origin
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(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
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

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The license terms used for sigma_dut files
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Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Atheros Communications, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2011-2017, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2018-2021, The Linux Foundation
All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Clear BSD license.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted (subject to the limitations in the
disclaimer below) provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. nor the names of its
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