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+Copyright Notice
+================
+
+Include a copyright notice with all submissions to ONF repositoreis.
+
+- ``Copyright 2017-2023 Open Networking Foundation Contributors``
+- NOTE: Range values such as -present are not legally binding
+
+  - Copyright notice should be dated to the last year sources were modified.
+
+- Add SPDX tokens for programatic validation.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :hidden:
+   :caption: Copyright notice syntax
+
+   golang syntax <golang>
+   JSON <json>
+   Makefile <Makefile>
+   Markdown <markdown>
+
+License Validation: linting
+---------------------------
+
+- `REUSE Software <https://reuse.software/>`_
+- `The REUSE tool <https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/tool>`_
+- `pre-commit <https://pre-commit.com/>`_ hook `reuse-tool <https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool>`_
+
+See Also
+--------
+
+- `Copyright notices <https://github.com/joey-onf/copyright>`_
+- `Message syntax <https://github.com/joey-onf/copyright/blob/origin/master/notice>`_
+- `ONF CLA Information <https://wiki.opencord.org>`_
+- `Contributing License Agreement Manager <https://cla.opennetworking.org/>`_
+
+SPDX
+^^^^
+
+- `Handling license info <https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/>`_
+- `SPDX License List <https://spdx.org/licenses/>`_