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corrected the license section and added a piece about doing patches against
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CONTRIBUTE
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To Think About When Contributing Source Code
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This document is intended to offer some guidelines that can be useful to keep
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@ -15,15 +13,13 @@ To Think About When Contributing Source Code
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The License Issue
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When contributing with code, you agree to put your changes and new code under
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the same license curl and libcurl is already using. Curl uses the MozPL, the
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Mozilla Public License, which is *NOT* compatible with the well known GPL,
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GNU Public License. We can never re-use sources from a GPL program in curl.
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the same license curl and libcurl is already using.
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If you add a larger piece of code, you can opt to make that file or set of
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files to use a different license as long as they don't enfore any changes to
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the rest of the package and they make sense. Such "separate parts" can not be
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GPL either (although they should use "GPL compatible" licenses).
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Curl and libcurl will soon become dual licensed, MozPL/MITX!
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GPL (as we don't want the FPL virus to attack users of libcurl) but they must
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use "GPL compatible" licenses.
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Naming
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@ -72,6 +68,13 @@ Separate Patches Doing Different Things
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description exactly what they correct so that all patches can be selectively
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applied by the maintainer or other interested parties.
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Patch Against Recent Sources
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Please try to get the latest available sources to make your patches
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against. It makes my life so much easier. The very best is if you get the
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most up-to-date sources from the CVS repository, but the latest release
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archive is quite OK as well!
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Document
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Writing docs is dead boring and one of the big problems with many open source
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