[lxc-devel] [PATCH] Add a section about licensing to CONTRIBUTING

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stéphane Graber (stgraber at ubuntu.com):
> Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>

thanks, Stéphane.

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>

> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
> index f6447c1..81edd3b 100644
> --- a/CONTRIBUTING
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING
> @@ -40,6 +40,30 @@ You can submit your patches to the lxc-devel at lists.sourceforge.net mailing
>  list. Use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel to subscribe
>  to the list.
>  
> +
> +Licensing for new files:
> +------------------------
> +
> +LXC is made of files shipped under a few different licenses.
> +
> +Anything that ends up being part of the LXC library needs to be released
> +under LGPLv2.1+ or a license compatible with it (though the latter will
> +only be accepted for cases where the code originated elsewhere and was
> +imported into LXC).
> +
> +Language bindings for the libraries need to be released under LGPLv2.1+.
> +
> +Anything else (non-libaries) needs to be Free Software and needs to be
> +allowed to link with LGPLv2.1+ code (if needed). LXC upstream prefers
> +LGPLv2.1+ or GPLv2 for those.
> +
> +
> +When introducing a new file into the project, please make sure it has a
> +copyright header making clear under which license it's being released
> +and if it doesn't match the criteria described above, please explain
> +your decision on the lxc-devel mailing-list when submitting your patch.
> +
> +
>  Developer Certificate of Origin:
>  --------------------------------
>  
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