From ac2efd73a9f62e6b0f2f18440437aa4263d05602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavier Hallade Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:14:18 +0200 Subject: added guidelines for external contributions enforcing the requirement for external contributions to be compatible with ISC license - and explicitly not being licensed under a copyleft license. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3cbad4f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# 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). + +Contributions that are licensed under a copyleft license (such as GPL) cannot be integrated. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3 From ab5476aab52addc4e7dd42c31a9454027080da50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanisław Halik Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:55:32 +0200 Subject: Update README.md --- README.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 92df4bf9..82327af9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,6 +72,4 @@ Don't be afraid to submit an issue/feature request if need arises. # 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. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 8f5c20c6047708a2ce59159270f66b9049141d2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanisław Halik Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:57:11 +0200 Subject: Update CONTRIBUTING.md --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 3cbad4f3..774db8f2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ 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). +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 that are licensed under a copyleft license (such as GPL) cannot be integrated. \ No newline at end of file +Contributions that are licensed under a copyleft license (such as GPL) cannot be integrated. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3e60ccda96dfada9307a0a25134475c726f1ae72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavier Hallade Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:52:57 +0200 Subject: added guideline for contributions using LGPL software --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 774db8f2..a8e22531 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ 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. +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 that are licensed under a copyleft license (such as GPL) cannot be integrated. +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 -- cgit v1.2.3