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+# Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Red Hat, Inc.
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made
+# available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+# which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+# Contributors:
+#   Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+#
+
+# Empty file.
+# Is required by operator-sdk for some tasks.