From aa73aaab71dc6824ae48d8804d6cdae3d19a1a81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:17:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Manual 'repolint' at TODO hackathon - license and contribution info Update LICENSE to match other repos. Add CONTRIBUTING.md. Add Mission and Contributing sections to README.md. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ LICENSE | 2 +- README.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b9887a88a --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Contributing to ClearlyDefined + +The ClearlyDefined project welcomes your suggestions and contributions! Before opening your first issue or pull request, please review our +[Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) to understand how our community interacts in an inclusive and respectful manner. + +## Contribution Licensing + +Most of our code is distributed under the terms of the [MIT license](LICENSE), and when you contribute code that you wrote to our repositories, +you agree that you are contributing under those same terms. In addition, by submitting your contributions you are indicating that +you have the right to submit those contributions under those terms. + +## Other Contribution Information + +If you wish to contribute code or documentation authored by others, or using the terms of any other license, please indicate that clearly in your +pull request so that the project team can discuss the situation with you. diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index a47c1cf2c..961578012 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ MIT License -Copyright (c) clearlydefined +Copyright 2018 Microsoft Corporation and others. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fffac3a9b..62183f5a0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -41,15 +41,16 @@ results of applying a particular curation PR to the harvested and curated data f * https://clearlydefined.io/curation/npm/npmjs/@someNamespace/coolpackage/1.13/pr/37 * https://clearlydefined.io/curation/git/github/clearlydefined/service/0.1.0 -# Contributing +# ClearlyDefined, defined. + +## Mission +Help FOSS projects be more successful through clearly defined project data. -This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to -agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, -and actually do, grant the project the rights to use your contribution. Details are TBD. +For more details on the project, check out the [wiki](../../../clearlydefined/wiki). + +# Contributing -When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need -to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the -instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repositories using our CLA. +This project welcomes contributions and suggestions, and we've documented the details of contribution policy [here](CONTRIBUTING.md). -The [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for this project is details how the community interacts in +The [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for this project is details how the community interacts in an inclusive and respectful manner. Please keep it in mind as you engage here.