diff --git a/meta-networking/COPYING.MIT b/meta-networking/COPYING.MIT
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+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN 
+THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/meta-networking/MAINTAINERS b/meta-networking/MAINTAINERS
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+This file contains a list of maintainers for the meta-networking layer.
+
+Please submit any patches against meta-networking to the OpenEmbedded
+development mailing list (openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org) with
+'[meta-networking]' in the subject.
+
+When sending single patches, please use something like:
+
+   git send-email -1 \
+        --to openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org \
+        --subject-prefix=meta-networking][PATCH
+
+You may also contact the maintainers directly.
+
+Descriptions of section entries:
+
+        M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
+        F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
+           A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
+           F: recipes-devtools/    all files in and below recipes-devtools
+           F: recipes-selinux/*    all files in recipes-selinux, but not below
+           One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
+
+Please keep this list in alphabetical order.
+
+Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
+
+COMMON
+M:      Joe MacDonald <joe.macdonald@windriver.com>
+F:      conf
+F:      recipes-*
diff --git a/meta-networking/README b/meta-networking/README
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+meta-networking
+===============
+
+This layer is intended to be a central point for networking-related
+packages and configuration.  It should be useful directly on top of
+oe-core and compliments meta-openembedded.  It should be primarily useful
+to the following groups:
+
+      - Anyone building a small networking device (eg. a home router /
+        bridge / switch).
+
+      - Anyone wanting to add network services to their device (eg.
+        anything that might benefit from a small ftp/tftp server)
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+This layer depends on:
+
+URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
+branch: master
+revision: HEAD
+
+Maintenance
+-----------
+
+Please see the MAINTAINERS file for information on contacting the
+maintainers of this layer, as well as instructions for submitting patches. 
diff --git a/meta-networking/conf/layer.conf b/meta-networking/conf/layer.conf
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+# We have a conf and classes directory, add to BBPATH
+BBPATH := "${BBPATH}:${LAYERDIR}"
+
+# We have a packages directory, add to BBFILES
+BBFILES := "${BBFILES} ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
+ ${LAYERDIR}/recipes-*/*/*.bbappend"
+
+BBFILE_COLLECTIONS += "networking"
+BBFILE_PATTERN_networking := "^${LAYERDIR}/"
+BBFILE_PRIORITY_networking = "5"
+