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| author | Ben Straub <bs@github.com> | 2013-11-01 10:51:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Straub <bs@github.com> | 2013-11-01 10:51:12 -0700 |
| commit | dcfdb977d0767395055afe2dcd44fe260e39b46d (patch) | |
| tree | d2660dba8973b9dd88fa33b2fae8749eacd54657 /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 567649f2ada60e5c3009cc985af238b452b14a81 (diff) | |
| download | libgit2-dcfdb977d0767395055afe2dcd44fe260e39b46d.tar.gz | |
Relicense examples under CC0
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 5c2eaec5e..807cd5320 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ We're making it easy to do interesting things with git, and we'd love to have your help. +## Licensing + +By contributing to libgit2, you agree to release your contribution under the terms of the license. +For code under `examples`, this is governed by the [CC0 Public Domain Dedication](examples/COPYING). +All other code is released under the [GPL v2 with linking exception](COPYING). + ## Discussion & Chat We hang out in the #libgit2 channel on irc.freenode.net. @@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ you're porting code *from* to see what you need to do. As a general rule, MIT and BSD (3-clause) licenses are typically no problem. Apache 2.0 license typically doesn't work due to GPL incompatibility. -If you are pulling in code from core Git, another project or code you've pulled from +If you are pulling in code from core Git, another project or code you've pulled from a forum / Stack Overflow then please flag this in your PR and also make sure you've given proper credit to the original author in the code snippet. |