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+The code in this directory was copied from Kubernetes version 0.22.5:
+ - https://github.com/kubernetes/apimachinery/tree/v0.22.5
+ - https://github.com/kubernetes/api/tree/v0.22.5
+
+The code is heavily modified by the Podman team (mostly removing unneeded code) to reduce the resulting binary size.
+The copyright belongs to the Kubernetes Authors and is licensed under Apache-2.0, also check the license headers in the files.