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Add the full text of the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license to the kernel tree. It was copied directly from: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.html#licenseText Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Valid-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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