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Expand Up @@ -273,9 +273,19 @@ All new source files should begin with a copyright and license stating:

//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
// Copyright (c) Contributors to the OpenFX Project.
// Copyright (c) OpenFX and contributors to the OpenFX Project.
//

Prior to becoming an ASWF project, OpenFX was controlled by The Open Effects
Association, a legal entity which had been assigned copyright in the original
contributions by a variety of companies and individuals. When the project
transferred to ASWF, these copyrights were assigned to a new legal entity,
OpenFX a Series of LF Projects, LLC (abbreviated to "OpenFX" in the notice).
In line with ASWF principles, new contributions do not require a copyright
assignment, but our copyright notice reflects this mixed history, and is
applied consistently across the project to avoid confusion when code is moved
between old and new files.

#### Third-party libraries

The standard itself should not depend on any third-party library or
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