ref: a7dc86001c892d0e2af9d6d3a95c6869fd9acf75
parent: c071586ae53965cbdc8c10643b18e68dc9d2d56b
author: Antonio Niño Díaz <[email protected]>
date: Fri Jan 26 19:47:06 EST 2018
Add note about the MIT License in CONTRIBUTING.rst Also, LICENSE.rst doesn't have any special formatting now, so it has been renamed to LICENSE. Signed-off-by: Antonio Niño Díaz <[email protected]>
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@
always a good idea to leave a message, just in case someone else is interested
but doesn't know that there's someone working on it.
+Note that you must contribute all your changes under the MIT License. If you are
+just modifying a file, you don't need to do anything (maybe update the copyright
+years). If you are adding new files, you need to use the correct header with the
+copyright and the reference to the MIT License.
+
1. Fork this repository.
2. Checkout the ``develop`` branch.
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,0 +1,21 @@
+The MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 1997-2018, Carsten Sorensen and RGBDS contributors.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
+deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
+rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
+sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+IN THE SOFTWARE.
--- a/LICENSE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +1,0 @@
-The MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) 1997-2018, Carsten Sorensen and RGBDS contributors.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
-deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
-rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
-sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
-FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
-IN THE SOFTWARE.