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+# Contributing
+
+We follow the [IPython Contributing Guide](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
diff --git a/COPYING.md b/COPYING.md
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+# Licensing terms
+
+This project is licensed under the terms of the Modified BSD License
+(also known as New or Revised or 3-Clause BSD), as follows:
+
+- Copyright (c) 2001-2015, IPython Development Team
+- Copyright (c) 2015-, Jupyter Development Team
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
+list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or
+other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+Neither the name of the Jupyter Development Team nor the names of its
+contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
+software without specific prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
+ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
+OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+## About the Jupyter Development Team
+
+The Jupyter Development Team is the set of all contributors to the Jupyter project.
+This includes all of the Jupyter subprojects.
+
+The core team that coordinates development on GitHub can be found here:
+https://github.com/jupyter/.
+
+## Our Copyright Policy
+
+Jupyter uses a shared copyright model. Each contributor maintains copyright
+over their contributions to Jupyter. But, it is important to note that these
+contributions are typically only changes to the repositories. Thus, the Jupyter
+source code, in its entirety is not the copyright of any single person or
+institution.  Instead, it is the collective copyright of the entire Jupyter
+Development Team.  If individual contributors want to maintain a record of what
+changes/contributions they have specific copyright on, they should indicate
+their copyright in the commit message of the change, when they commit the
+change to one of the Jupyter repositories.
+
+With this in mind, the following banner should be used in any source code file
+to indicate the copyright and license terms:
+
+    # Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
+    # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
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+include COPYING.md
+include CONTRIBUTING.md
+include README.md
+
+# Documentation
+graft docs
+exclude docs/\#*
+
+# Examples
+graft examples
+
+# docs subdirs we want to skip
+prune docs/build
+prune docs/gh-pages
+prune docs/dist
+
+# Patterns to exclude from any directory
+global-exclude *~
+global-exclude *.pyc
+global-exclude *.pyo
+global-exclude .git
+global-exclude .ipynb_checkpoints
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+[bdist_wheel]
+universal=1