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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..02842440 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# Contributing to Dendrite + +Thank you for taking the time to contribute to Matrix! + +This is the repository for Dendrite, a second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go. + +## Sign off + +We ask that everybody who contributes to this project signs off their contributions, as explained below. + +We follow a simple 'inbound=outbound' model for contributions: the act of submitting an 'inbound' contribution means that the contributor agrees to license their contribution under the same terms as the project's overall 'outbound' license - in our case, this is Apache Software License v2 (see [LICENSE](./LICENSE)). + +In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is intentional and you agree to license it under the same terms as the project's license, we've adopted the same lightweight approach used by the [Linux Kernel](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html), [Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), and many other projects: the [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://developercertificate.org/) (DCO). This is a simple declaration that you wrote the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Matrix: + +``` +Developer Certificate of Origin +Version 1.1 + +Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. +660 York Street, Suite 102, +San Francisco, CA 94110 USA + +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this +license document, but changing it is not allowed. + +Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 + +By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: + +(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I + have the right to submit it under the open source license + indicated in the file; or + +(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best + of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source + license and I have the right under that license to submit that + work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part + by me, under the same open source license (unless I am + permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated + in the file; or + +(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other + person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified + it. + +(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution + are public and that a record of the contribution (including all + personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is + maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with + this project or the open source license(s) involved. +``` + +If you agree to this for your contribution, then all that's needed is to include the line in your commit or pull request comment: + +``` +Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org> +``` + +Git allows you to add this signoff automatically when using the `-s` flag to `git commit`, which uses the name and email set in your `user.name` and `user.email` git configs.
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