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+project {
+  license = "MPL-2.0"
+  copyright_year = 2013
+  header_ignore = [
+    "*.hcl2spec.go", # generated code specs, since they'll be wiped out until we support adding the headers at generation-time
+    "hcl2template/testdata/**",
+    "test/**",
+    "**/test-fixtures/**",
+    "examples/**",
+    "hcl2template/fixtures/**",
+    "website/**" # candidates for copyright are coming from external sources, so we should not handle those in Packer
+  ]
+}