Merge pull request #62 from AllenInstitute/feature/open-legal

adds assets necessary for public release

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Allen Institute Contribution Agreement
+
+This document describes the terms under which you may make “Contributions” —
+which may include without limitation, software additions, revisions, bug fixes, configuration changes,
+documentation, or any other materials — to any of the projects owned or managed by the Allen Institute.
+If you have questions about these terms, please contact us at terms@alleninstitute.org.  
+
+You certify that:
+
+•	Your Contributions are either:
+
+1.	Created in whole or in part by you and you have the right to submit them under the designated license
+(described below); or
+2.	Based upon previous work that, to the best of your knowledge, is covered under an appropriate
+open source license and you have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications,
+whether created in whole or in part by you, under the designated license; or
+
+3.	Provided directly to you by some other person who certified (1) or (2) and you have not modified them.
+
+•	You are granting your Contributions to the Allen Institute under the terms of the [2-Clause BSD license](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
+(the “designated license”).
+
+•	You understand and agree that the Allen Institute projects and your Contributions are public and that
+a record of the Contributions (including all metadata and personal information you submit with them) is
+maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with the Allen Institute’s mission and the
+2-Clause BSD license.  

LICENSE

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+BSD 3-Clause License
+
+Copyright (c) 2018, Allen Institute
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+  list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+  and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+* Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
+  contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
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+
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CONTRIBUTING.rst → docs/CONTRIBUTING.rst

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 You can contribute in many ways:
 
-Types of Contributions
+Reporting Bugs and Proposing Features
 ----------------------
 
 Report Bugs
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 * Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
 * Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.
 
+Propose Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at https://github.com/AllenInstitute/neuroglia/issues.
+
+If you are proposing a feature:
+
+* Explain in detail how it would work.
+* Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
+* Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions
+  are welcome :)
+
+Fixing Bugs & Implementing New Features
+----------------------
+
 Fix Bugs
 ~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -42,18 +57,6 @@ neuroglia could always use more documentation, whether as part of the
 official neuroglia docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts,
 articles, and such.
 
-Submit Feedback
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at https://github.com/AllenInstitute/neuroglia/issues.
-
-If you are proposing a feature:
-
-* Explain in detail how it would work.
-* Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
-* Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions
-  are welcome :)
-
 Get Started!
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