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+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+1 Letterman Drive
+Suite D4700
+San Francisco, CA, 94129
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
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+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
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+    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
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+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
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+(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
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 License
 =======
 
-Copyright (c) 2019, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2019-2024, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
 are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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+# Arm Corstone-1000 Applications
+
+---
+
+__🚨Disclaimer:__
+
+*_Arm reference solutions are Arm public example software projects that track and pull upstream components, incorporating their respective security fixes published over time._*
+*_Users of these solutions are responsible for ensuring that the components they use contain all the required security fixes, if and when they deploy a product derived from Arm reference solutions._*
+
+---
+
+Welcome to the Arm Corstone-1000 Applications repository!
+
+This repository contains software applications designed to test the external system of the [Corstone-1000 Arm pre-integrated IP subsystems and system IP][corstone-1000-system-ip].
+It is designed to work with the Corstone-1000 reference platform software stack.
+
+For detailed information about the Corstone-1000 software stack, including usage of the applications
+in this repository, refer to the [official Corstone-1000 software stack User Guide][corstone-1000-sw-stack-user-guide].
+
+
+[corstone-1000-system-ip]: https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Corstone-1000
+[corstone-1000-sw-stack-user-guide]: https://corstone1000.docs.arm.com/en/corstone1000-2023.06/user-guide.html#running-the-external-system-test-command-systems-comms-tests