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 ### Third-party code included in Mbed TLS
 
-This project contains code from other projects. This code is located within the `3rdparty/` directory. The original license text is included within project subdirectories, and in source files. The projects are listed below:
+This project contains code from other projects. This code is located within the `3rdparty/` directory. The original license text is included within project subdirectories, where it differs from the normal Mbed TLS license, and/or in source files. The projects are listed below:
 
 * `3rdparty/everest/`: Files stem from [Project Everest](https://project-everest.github.io/) and are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
-* `3rdparty/p256-m/p256-m/`: Files have been taken from the [p256-m](https://github.com/mpg/p256-m) repository. The code in the original repository is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It is distributed in Mbed TLS under a dual Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later license. We do not plan to regularly update these files, so they may not contain fixes and improvements present in the upstream project.
+* `3rdparty/p256-m/p256-m/`: Files have been taken from the [p256-m](https://github.com/mpg/p256-m) repository. The code in the original repository is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It is distributed in Mbed TLS under a dual Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later license with permission from the author.
 
 Contributing
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