Documentation: Add the Open vSwitch project charter.

It always seems odd that this isn't in the repo, so this adds it, with
internal links properly directed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>

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+The Linux Foundation Open vSwitch Project Charter
+=================================================
+
+Effective August 9, 2016
+
+1. Mission of Open vSwitch Project (“OVS”).
+
+   The mission of OVS is to:
+
+   a. create an open source, production quality virtual networking
+      platform, including a software switch, control plane, and
+      related components, that supports standard management interfaces
+      and opens the forwarding functions to programmatic extension and
+      control; and
+
+   b. host the infrastructure for an OVS community, establishing a
+      neutral home for community assets, infrastructure, meetings,
+      events and collaborative discussions.
+
+2. Technical Steering Committee (“TSC”)
+
+   a. A TSC shall be composed of the Committers for OVS. The list of Committers
+      on the TSC are available at :doc:`/internals/maintainers`.
+
+   b. TSC projects generally will involve Committers and Contributors:
+
+      i. Contributors: anyone in the technical community that
+         contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts
+         to the OVS codebase.
+
+      ii. Committers: Contributors who have the ability to commit
+          directly to a project’s main branch or repository on an OVS
+          project.
+
+   c. Participation in as a Contributor and/or Committer is open to
+      anyone under the terms of this Charter.  The TSC may:
+
+      i. establish work flows and procedures for the submission,
+         approval and closure or archiving of projects,
+
+      ii. establish criteria and processes for the promotion of Contributors to
+          Committer status, available at
+          :doc:`/internals/committer-grant-revocation`. and
+
+      iii. amend, adjust and refine the roles of Contributors and Committers
+           listed in Section 2.b., create new roles and publicly document
+           responsibilities and expectations for such roles, as it sees fit,
+           available at :doc:`/internals/committer-responsibilities`.
+
+   d. Responsibilities: The TSC is responsible for overseeing OVS
+      activities and making decisions that impact the mission of OVS,
+      including:
+
+      i. coordinating the technical direction of OVS;
+
+      ii. approving project proposals (including, but not limited to,
+          incubation, deprecation and changes to a project’s charter
+          or scope);
+
+      iii. creating sub-committees or working groups to focus on
+           cross-project technical issues and requirements;
+
+      iv. communicating with external and industry organizations
+          concerning OVS technical matters;
+
+      v. appointing representatives to work with other open source or
+         standards communities;
+
+      vi. establishing community norms, workflows or policies including
+          processes for contributing (available at
+          :doc:`/internals/contributing/index`), issuing releases, and security
+          issue reporting policies;
+
+      vii. discussing, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting
+           on technical matters relating to the code base that affect
+           multiple projects; and
+
+      viii. coordinate any marketing, events or communications with
+            The Linux Foundation.
+
+3. TSC Voting
+
+   a. While it is the goal of OVS to operate as a consensus based
+      community, if any TSC decision requires a vote to move forward,
+      the Committers shall vote on a one vote per Committer basis.
+
+   b. TSC votes should be conducted by email. In the case of a TSC
+      meeting where a valid vote is taken, the details of the vote and
+      any discussion should be subsequently documented for the
+      community (e.g. to the appropriate email mailing list).
+
+   c. Quorum for TSC meetings shall require two-thirds of the TSC
+      representatives. The TSC may continue to meet if quorum is not
+      met, but shall be prevented from making any decisions requiring
+      a vote at the meeting.
+
+   d. Except as provided in Section 8.d. and 9.a., decisions by
+      electronic vote (e.g. email) shall require a majority of all
+      voting TSC representatives.  Decisions by electronic vote shall
+      be made timely, and unless specified otherwise, within three (3)
+      business days. Except as provided in Section 8.d. and 9.a.,
+      decisions by vote at a meeting shall require a majority vote,
+      provided quorum is met.
+
+   e. In the event of a tied vote with respect to an action that
+      cannot be resolved by the TSC, any TSC representative shall be
+      entitled to refer the matter to the Linux Foundation for
+      assistance in reaching a decision.
+
+4. Antitrust Guidelines
+
+   a. All participants in OVS shall abide by The Linux Foundation
+      Antitrust Policy available at
+      http://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy.
+
+   b. All members shall encourage open participation from any
+      organization able to meet the participation requirements,
+      regardless of competitive interests. Put another way, the
+      community shall not seek to exclude any participant based on any
+      criteria, requirements or reasons other than those that are
+      reasonable and applied on a non-discriminatory basis to all
+      participants.
+
+5. Code of Conduct
+
+   a. The TSC may adopt a specific OVS Project code of conduct, with approval
+      from the LF.
+
+6. Budget and Funding
+
+   a. The TSC shall coordinate any budget or funding needs with The
+      Linux Foundation. Companies participating may be solicited to
+      sponsor OVS activities and infrastructure needs on a voluntary
+      basis.
+
+   b. The Linux Foundation shall have custody of and final authority
+      over the usage of any fees, funds and other cash receipts.
+
+   c. A General & Administrative (G&A) fee will be applied by the
+      Linux Foundation to funds raised to cover Finance, Accounting,
+      and operations.  The G&A fee shall equal 9% of OVS’s first
+      $1,000,000 of gross receipts and 6% of OVS’s gross receipts over
+      $1,000,000.
+
+   d. Under no circumstances shall The Linux Foundation be expected or
+      required to undertake any action on behalf of OVS that is
+      inconsistent with the tax exempt purpose of The Linux
+      Foundation.
+
+7. General Rules and Operations.
+
+   The OVS project shall be conducted so as to:
+
+   a. engage in the work of the project in a professional manner
+      consistent with maintaining a cohesive community, while also
+      maintaining the goodwill and esteem of The Linux Foundation in
+      the open source software community;
+
+   b. respect the rights of all trademark owners, including any
+      branding and usage guidelines;
+
+   c. engage The Linux Foundation for all OVS press and analyst
+      relations activities;
+
+   d. upon request, provide information regarding Project
+      participation, including information regarding attendance at
+      Project-sponsored events, to The Linux Foundation; and
+
+   e. coordinate with The Linux Foundation in relation to any websites
+      created directly for OVS.
+
+8. Intellectual Property Policy
+
+   a. Members agree that all new inbound code contributions to OVS shall be
+      made under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (available at
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). All contributions shall be
+      accompanied by a Developer Certificate of Origin sign-off
+      (http://developercertificate.org) that is submitted through a TSC and
+      LF-approved contribution process.
+
+   b. All outbound code will be made available under the Apache
+      License, Version 2.0.
+
+   c. All documentation will be contributed to and made available by
+      OVS under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+
+   d. For any new project source code, if an alternative inbound or
+      outbound license is required for compliance with the license for
+      a leveraged open source project (e.g. GPLv2 for Linux kernel) or
+      is otherwise required to achieve OVS’s mission, the TSC may
+      approve the use of an alternative license for specific inbound
+      or outbound contributions on an exception basis. Any exceptions
+      must be approved by a majority vote of the entire TSC and must
+      be limited in scope to what is required for such purpose.
+      Please email tsc@openvswitch.org to obtain exception approval.
+
+   e. Subject to available funds, OVS may engage The Linux Foundation
+      to determine the availability of, and register, trademarks,
+      service marks, which shall be owned by the LF.
+
+9. Amendments
+
+   a. This charter may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the entire
+      TSC, subject to approval by The Linux Foundation.
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/index.rst b/Documentation/internals/index.rst
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ itself and how they might involved.
    release-process
    bugs
    security
+   charter
    committer-emeritus-status
    committer-responsibilities
    committer-grant-revocation