CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

t8code is an open-source project and contributions from the community are much appreciated. Please feel free to open issues or submit patches (preferably as pull requests) any time. For larger contributions, it is often beneficial to get in contact with one of the principal developers first. You can do so by opening a "feature request" issue.

Contributors are required to put their contributions under the FreeBSD license. To do so, add a file doc/author_NAME.txt with the content "I place my contributions to t8code under the FreeBSD license. FIRSTNAME LASTNAME <EMAIL>"

Please see our Wiki articles on contributing and coding guidelines for more details.

t8code and its direct contributions are licensed under the GPLv2 (see COPYING). As a contributor, you certify that all your contributions are in conformance with the Developer Certificate of Origin (Version 1.1), which is reproduced below.

Developer Certificate of Origin (Version 1.1)

The following text was taken from https://developercertificate.org:

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129

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.