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ZMK Firmware is a [clean room design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design) keyboard firmware, that
borrows/implements a lot of the features found in popular keyboard firmwares projects like [QMK](https://qmk.fm)
and [TMK](https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard). However, in order for ZMK to use the Apache 2.0, it _must_ not
and [TMK](https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard). However, in order for ZMK to use the MIT, it _must_ not
incorporate any of the GPL licensed code from those projects.
In order to achieve this, all code for ZMK has been implemented completely fresh, _without_ referencing, copying,
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Contributors to ZMK must adhere to the following standard.
- Implementations of features for ZMK _MUST_ not reuse any existing code from any projects not licensed with the Apache 2.0 license.
- Implementations of features for ZMK _MUST_ not reuse any existing code from any projects not licensed with the MIT license.
- Contributors _MUST_ not study or refer to any GPL licensed source code while working on ZMK.
- Contributors _MAY_ read the documentation from other GPL licensed projects, to gain a broad understanding of the behavior of certain features in order to implement equivalent features for ZMK.
- Contributors _MAY_ refer to the [QMK Configurator](https://config.qmk.fm/) to inspect existing layouts/keymaps for