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+# Source Code Submissions 
+We welcome your contributions and look forward to collaborating with you. We can only accept source code repository 
+submissions from users who have signed and returned the Oracle 
+Contributor Agreement. You will find details and the agreement to sign at this OTN web page: 
+[Oracle Contributor Agreement](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html). 
+
+# Other Contributions
+For all project Submissions other than source code repository contributions, the following also applies: Oracle does 
+not claim ownership of Your Submissions. However, in order to fulfill 
+the purposes of this project, You must give Oracle and all Users 
+the right to post, access, discuss, use, publish, disseminate, and refine 
+Your Submissions. 
+
+In legalese: *You hereby grant to Oracle and all 
+Users a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, 
+and fully sub-licensable right and license, under Your intellectual 
+property rights, to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create 
+derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, and use Your 
+Submissions (in whole or part) and to incorporate or implement them in 
+other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later 
+developed, all subject to the obligation to retain any copyright notices 
+included in Your Submissions. All Users, Oracle, and their 
+sublicensees are responsible for any modifications they make to the 
+Submissions of others.*
+
+Copyright &copy; 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.