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+#
+# Copyright 2016 RIFT.IO Inc
+#
+# 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.
+#
+# Author(s): Austin Cormier
+# Creation Date: 2016/05/23
+
+
+Generates the MWC16 NSD and VNFD descriptor packages from source.
+
+To generate the packages type "make". The VNF and NSD packages will be located
+build/vnfd_pkgs and build/nsd_pkgs.
+
+To clean, type 'make clean'.
+
+You need to install charm tools to compile the charms required for the packages.
+On Fedora, install using: pip install charm-tools
+On Ubuntu, install using: apt install charm-tools
+For other platforms, check https://jujucharms.com/docs/2.0/tools-charm-tools
+
+Due to license issues, for the IMS VNFD package, the IMS charm is fetched
+extracted from the respective git repository prior to packaging. Because of
+this, internet access is required to reach github.