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+Different components of Phosphor OpenBMC are under different licenses (a mix
+Please see:
+
+COPYING.MIT (MIT)
+
+All metadata is 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.