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-# zss
-Zowe System Services
+This program and the accompanying materials are
+made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0 which accompanies
+this distribution, and is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+
+Copyright Contributors to the Zowe Project.
+
+# ZSS - Zowe System Services Server for enabling low-level microservices
+To build ZSS and the cross-memory server, go to the build directory and run ant. zssServer will 
+be placed in the bin directory, the cross-memory server's load module will be placed in 
+the user-id.DEV.LOADLIB dataset.
+
+
+This program and the accompanying materials are
+made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0 which accompanies
+this distribution, and is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+
+Copyright Contributors to the Zowe Project.
+