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design-documents/LICENSE

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design-documents/README.md

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+<div align="center">
+   <img src="Arm_logo_blue_RGB.svg" />
+</div>
+
+# Design Documents
+
+
+## About the documents in this folder
+
+This folder contains design documents for the ABI. The intention of
+the design documents is to provide rationale and background for the
+individual ABI documents. Nothing written in a design document is
+normative, and if there is any disagreement with one of the main
+specification documents then the specification takes precedence.
+
+## About the license
+
+As identified more fully in the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file, this project
+is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 along with an additional patent
+license.  The language in the additional patent license is largely
+identical to that in Apache-2.0 (specifically, Section 3 of Apache-2.0
+as reflected at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) with two
+exceptions.
+
+First, several changes were made related to the defined terms so as to
+reflect the fact that such defined terms need to align with the
+terminology in CC-BY-SA-4.0 rather than Apache-2.0 (e.g., changing
+“Work” to “Licensed Material”).
+
+Second, the defensive termination clause was changed such that the
+scope of defensive termination applies to “any licenses granted to
+You” (rather than “any patent licenses granted to You”).  This change
+is intended to help maintain a healthy ecosystem by providing
+additional protection to the community against patent litigation
+claims.
+
+## Defects report
+
+Please report defects in any of the design documents to the [issue
+tracker page on
+GitHub](https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/issues).