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+# RIC Dashboard Web Application Backend
+
+The RIC Dashboard back-end provides REST services to the Dashboard
+front-end Typescript features running in the user's browser. For
+production use, it also serves the Angular application files.
+
+Please see the documentation in the docs/ folder.
+
+The backend server publishes live API documentation at the
+URL `http://your-host-name-here:8080/swagger-ui.html`
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (C) 2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.