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+<!--
+Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
+-->
 Welcome to curl, thanks for contributing!
 
 1. Please submit your PR in *draft mode* and mark it *ready* once the CI jobs