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Contributions are welcome with exceptions to certain areas.

# Requirements

For contributions, a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is required to certify its origin and the process is managed by [DCO v1.1](https://developercertificate.org/)

The agreement to DCO can be notified by the 'Signed-off-by' message in the commit message using your real name and e-mail.
An example is as below

`Signed-off-by: Name Surname <name.surname@example.com>`

# Exempted from Contributions

The following two folders in the main directory are exempted from contributions.

1. kai
1. test

The micro-kernels in kai folder are primarily auto generated and the source of that is not planned to be made open source. For any
changes there, please raise an issue.