diff --git a/.status b/.status
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+# Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+# for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+# BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Don't run any test-like files that show up in packages directories. It
+# shouldn't be necessary to run "pub install" in these packages, but if you do
+# it shouldn't break the tests.
+packages/*/*: Skip
+*/packages/*/*: Skip
+*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
+*/*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
+*/*/*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
+*/*/*/*/*/packages/*/*: Skip
+
+[ $runtime != vm ]
+test/io_test: Skip  # This only runs on the VM.
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+# Names should be added to this file with this pattern:
+#
+# For individuals:
+#   Name <email address>
+#
+# For organizations:
+#   Organization <fnmatch pattern>
+#
+Google Inc. <*@google.com>
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+Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents)
+
+"This implementation" means the copyrightable works distributed by
+Google as part of the Dart Project.
+
+Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
+no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this
+section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell,
+import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents
+of this implementation of Dart, where such license applies only to
+those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in
+the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by
+this implementation of Dart. This grant does not include claims that
+would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of
+this implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee
+institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation
+against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a
+lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of Dart or any code
+incorporated within this implementation of Dart constitutes direct or
+contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent
+infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License
+for this implementation of Dart shall terminate as of the date such
+litigation is filed.
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