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 For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
 https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit
 
+## Eclipse Development Process
+
+This Eclipse Foundation open project is governed by the Eclipse Foundation
+Development Process and operates under the terms of the Eclipse IP Policy.
+
+The Jakarta EE Specification Committee has adopted the Jakarta EE Specification
+Process (JESP) in accordance with the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process
+v1.2 (EFSP) to ensure that the specification process is complied with by all
+Jakarta EE specification projects.
+
+* https://eclipse.org/projects/dev_process
+* https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_IP_Policy.pdf
+* https://jakarta.ee/about/jesp/
+* https://www.eclipse.org/legal/efsp_non_assert.php
+
 ## Contact
 
 Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.