From 2e0a44551418bfc84ed376430b0a5a0a157ff087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harendra Kumar Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 14:13:35 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add licensing guidelines --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 9dd076e4..f1d80668 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Here is a quick checklist for a PR, for details please see the next section: * Tutorial module, [README](README.md), and [guides](docs) are updated if necessary. * [Changelog](Changelog.md) is updated if needed +* The code conforms to the license, it is not stolen, credit is given, + copyright notices are retained, original license is included if needed. ### Structuring Pull Requests @@ -170,6 +172,14 @@ of the library please indicate that in the `Changelog` as `Breaking Changes` and also write short notes regarding what the programmers need to do to adapt their existing code to the new change. +### Licensing + +If you have copied code from elsewhere you need to conform to the +licensing terms of the original code. Usually you would need to add a +copyright notice in the source header, and include the license of the +original code as per the terms of the license. If the code you are +copying does not have an associated license please do not use it. + ## Developer documentation To build haddock documentation for all modules, including the ones not exposed