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+All metadata files (including, but not limited to bb, bbappend,
+bbclass, inc and conf files) are MIT licensed unless otherwise stated.
+Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the
+LICENSE stated in the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise
+stated.