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+Deployment recipe for TSA cache service
+
+
+Copyright 2022 Vereign AG
+
+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.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -58,3 +58,9 @@ cache deployment
 
 ----------------------------------------------
 Autogenerated from chart metadata using [helm-docs v1.10.0](https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs/releases/v1.10.0)
+
+## License
+<hr/>
+
+[Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE)
+