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Contributor License Agreement

You must sign a .NET Foundation Contribution License Agreement (CLA) before your Pull Request will be merged. This is a one-time requirement for projects in the .NET Foundation. You can read more about Contribution License Agreements (CLA) on Wikipedia.

The agreement: net-foundation-contribution-license-agreement.pdf

You don't have to do this up-front. You can simply clone, fork, and submit your pull-request as usual. When your pull-request is created, it is classified by a CLA bot. If the change is trivial (for example, you just fixed a typo), then the PR is labelled with cla-not-required. Otherwise it's classified as cla-required. Once you signed a CLA, the current and all future pull-requests will be labelled as cla-signed.

Code Copyrights

The Steeltoe project maintains that all code copyrights are held by the original author(s), but licensed back, under an Apache license, to the greater community of users.

Source License

The Steeltoe project uses the following licenses:

File Header - Copyright and License

All source code files (i.e. src/**/*.cs and test/**/*.cs) require this header:

// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the Apache 2.0 License.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

Every Steeltoe repository must also contain an Apache 2.0 License in a file called LICENSE in the root of the repository.

Copying Files from Other Projects

At times Steeltoe may use some files from other projects, typically where a binary distribution does not exist or would be inconvenient to use.

The following rules must be followed for any code contributions that include files from another project:

  • The license of the file is permissive.
  • The license of the file is left in-tact.
  • The contribution is correctly attributed in the third party notices(e.g. NOTICES) file in the repository to which it is being contributed.

Porting Files from Other Projects

There may be times in which code developed in other languages could benefit the Steeltoe project. The rules for porting say a Java file to C#, are the same as would be used for copying the same file, as described above.