diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+target
+**/.settings
+**/.classpath
+**/.project
+**/.buildpath
+**/.factorypath
+**/.springBeans
+**/.project
+**/.classpath
+.idea
+.checkstyle
+.DS_Store
+.*~
+*.iml
+**/logs/
+**/debug-logs/
+*.class
+*.swp
+*.log
+*.tmp
+**/bin/
+/tattletale/
+/.metadata/
+**/.sts4-cache
+**/.java-version
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
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+  Copyright (C) 2021 Nordix Foundation.
+
+  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.
+
+  SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+++ b/pom.xml
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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.onap.so</groupId>
+		<artifactId>so</artifactId>
+		<version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<groupId>org.onap.so.etsi.nfvo</groupId>
+	<artifactId>so-etsi-nfvo</artifactId>
+	<version>1.7.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+++ b/readme.md
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+# ONAP SO ETSI NFVO
+
+----
+----
+
+# Introduction
+
+SO ETSI NFVO project which handles the NS Lifecycle Management and NS Package Management.
+
+# Compiling SO ETSI NFVO
+
+SO ETSI NFVO can be compiled with `mvn clean install`
+
+# Getting Help
+
+Subscribe and post messages with SO tag in onap-discuss group at https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-discuss
+
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
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+++ b/version.properties
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+# Versioning variables
+# Note that these variables cannot be structured (e.g. : version.release or version.snapshot etc... )
+# because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
+
+major=1
+minor=8
+patch=0
+
+base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}
+
+# Release must be completed with git revision # in Jenkins
+release_version=${base_version}
+snapshot_version=${base_version}-SNAPSHOT