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+# Contributing to Eclipse Sumo
+
+Thanks for your interest in this project.
+
+## Project description
+
+Eclipse Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) is a free and open traffic
+simulation toolsuite. SUMO allows modelling and analyzing intermodal traffic
+systems, including road vehicles, public transport, cargo logistics and
+pedestrians. Included with SUMO is a wealth of supporting tools, which handle
+tasks like route finding, visualization, network import and emission
+calculation. SUMO can be enhanced with custom models and it provides various
+APIs to remotely control and influence the simulation.
+
+* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.sumo
+
+## Developer resources
+
+Information regarding source code management, builds, coding standards, and
+more.
+
+* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.sumo/developer
+
+The project maintains the following source code repositories
+
+* https://github.com/eclipse/sumo
+
+## Eclipse Contributor Agreement
+
+Before your contribution can be accepted by the project team contributors must
+electronically sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA).
+
+* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php
+
+Commits that are provided by non-committers must have a Signed-off-by field in
+the footer indicating that the author is aware of the terms by which the
+contribution has been provided to the project. The non-committer must
+additionally have an Eclipse Foundation account and must have a signed Eclipse
+Contributor Agreement (ECA) on file.
+
+For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
+https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit
+
+## Contact
+
+Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.
+
+* https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/sumo-dev
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+EXTRA_DIST = README.md ChangeLog AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE NOTICE.md sumo.doxyconf
 
 doc: pydoc doxygen userdoc javadoc
 
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+# Notices for Eclipse Sumo
+
+This content is produced and maintained by the Eclipse Sumo project.
+
+* Project home: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.sumo
+
+## Trademarks
+
+Eclipse Sumo is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation.
+
+## Copyright
+
+All content is the property of the respective authors or their employers. For
+more information regarding authorship of content, please consult the listed
+source code repository logs.
+
+## Declared Project Licenses
+
+This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms
+of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+
+## Source Code
+
+The project maintains the following source code repositories:
+
+* https://github.com/eclipse/sumo
+
+## Third-party Content
+
+This project leverages the following third party content.
+
+Font Stash from 2017-09-23 (n/a)
+
+* License: Zlib AND (MIT OR LicenseRef-Public-Domain)
+* Project: https://github.com/memononen/fontstash
+* Source: https://github.com/memononen/fontstash
+
+FOX toolkit (1.6.55)
+
+* License: LicenseRef-Fox-Toolkit-Addendum-to-License AND
+   LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND  X11
+* Project: http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
+* Source: ftp://ftp.fox-toolkit.org/pub/fox-1.6.55.zip
+
+Google Design Icons (n/a)
+
+* License: CC-BY-4.0
+* Project: http://google.com/design/
+
+odrSpiral from 2017-05-03 (n/a)
+
+* License: Apache-2.0
+* Project: https://github.com/DLR-TS/odrSpiral
+* Source: https://github.com/DLR-TS/odrSpiral
+
+OpenStreetMap data files (n/a)
+
+* License: ODbL-1.0
+* Project: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
+
+Proj4 - (4.9.3)
+
+* License: MIT AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND Apache-2.0
+
+RTree (n/a)
+
+* License: LicenseRef-Permissive
+* Project: http://superliminal.com/sources/sources.htm
+* Source: http://superliminal.com/sources/RTreeTemplate.zip
+
+tcpip from 2012-09-28 (n/a)
+
+* License: BSD-3-Clause
+* Project: https://github.com/itm/shawn
+* Source: https://github.com/itm/shawn/tree/master/src/apps/tcpip
+
+Xerces-C++ (3.2.0)
+
+* License: Apache-2.0
+* Project: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
+* Source:
+   http://mirror.softaculous.com/apache//xerces/c/3/sources/xerces-c-3.2.0.tar.gz
+
+## Cryptography
+
+Content may contain encryption software. The country in which you are currently
+may have restrictions on the import, possession, and use, and/or re-export to
+another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software,
+please check the country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import,
+possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is
+permitted.
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