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authorJordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>2014-08-25 23:10:18 +0000
committerjljusten <jljusten@6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524>2014-08-25 23:10:18 +0000
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EDK II Contributions.txt: Note acceptable contribution licenses
We strongly prefer that contribtions be offered using the same license as the project/module. But, we should document other acceptable licenses for contributions. This will allow package owners to more easily know if they can accept a contribution under a different source license. NOTE: This does not modify the wording of the "TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0" section Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Doran <mark.doran@intel.com> git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@15892 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
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@@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ To make a contribution to a TianoCore project, follow these steps.
that the project documents on its web page. If the process is
not documented, then submit the code on development email list
for the project.
+5. It is preferred that contributions are submitted using the same
+ copyright license as the base project. When that is not possible,
+ then contributions using the following licenses can be accepted:
+ * BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
+ * BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
+ * MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
+ * Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0
+ * Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib
+
+ Contributions of code put into the public domain can also be
+ accepted.
+
+ Contributions using other licenses might be accepted, but further
+ review will be required.
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