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+# cabana
+This is a lesser fork of upstream cabana.
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+# Upstream
+This is forked from RetroPilot which is forked from OpenPilot:
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+* https://github.com/retropilot/cabana
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+* https://github.com/commaai/cabana
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+See also  `README-upstream.md`.
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