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| author | Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> | 2019-06-11 16:35:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com> | 2019-06-12 07:31:00 +0200 |
| commit | b323b3d62eb1b9b9ae6881c1b721fc1fca9606a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 05ed3b1ea2fc84feee6c846abeae8bc2e9108622 | |
| parent | b247950c6fa1b332402068e5eeda7d6708f8c9af (diff) | |
| download | NetworkManager-b323b3d62eb1b9b9ae6881c1b721fc1fca9606a2.tar.gz | |
CONTRIBUTING: comment that all new contributions must be made under LGPL-2.0+ license
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 62d6c132d9..464b0b8996 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -38,10 +38,15 @@ with #ifdef MY_DEFINE / #endif in the code. 3) Legal: -All original contributions to NetworkManager are licensed under the -GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, or, if another license -is specified as governing the file or directory being modified, such -other license. See the file COPYING in this directory for details. +NetworkManager is partly licensed under terms of GNU Lesser General Public License +version 2 or later (LGPL-2.0+). That is for example the case for libnm. +For historical reasons, the daemon itself is licensed under terms of GNU General +Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0+). See the license comment in the source +files. +Note that all novel contributions to NetworkManager MUST be made under terms of +LGPL-2.0+, that is also the case for parts that are currently licensed GPL-2.0+. +The reason for that is that we might eventually relicense everything as LGPL and +new contributions already must agree with that future change. Assertions in NetworkManager code ================================= |