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+We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
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+The Linux Foundation® (TLF) has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of TLF trademarks, see [Trademark Usage](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage)".
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+*OSCAL Compass was originally contributed by IBM.*
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