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+# Contributing to opentrack
+
+Pull requests for contributing patches, improvements and new features are greatly welcome through GitHub.
+
+By submitting a pull request, you agree to allow the project owner to license your work under the [ISC license](https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC).
+Please add your copyright and licensing information before submitting a pull request.
+
+Contributions may depend on LGPL software but not be a derivative work of LGPL software (and more specifically be statically linked to any LGPL code).
+Contributions that are licensed under a copyleft license (such as GPL) cannot be integrated. \ No newline at end of file
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# Licensing information
-Recommended to submit new code under ISC license, shorter boilerplate
-header than MIT/X11 or new BSD. Please don't use copyleft licenses for
-lack of legal hell.
+Almost all code is licensed under the [ISC license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license). There are very few proprietary dependencies. There is no copyleft code. See individual files for licensing and authorship information.