Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Update to inclusive language
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Signed-off-by: Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@gmail.com>
  • Loading branch information
caniszczyk committed Jun 25, 2020
1 parent a84cca6 commit c9043bf
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 11 deletions.
20 changes: 9 additions & 11 deletions whitelist-policy.md → allowed-third-party-license-policy.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -7,14 +7,12 @@ the CNCF project itself.
The IP policy in the [CNCF charter] allows the CNCF Governing Board to review
and approve other non-Apache-2.0 licenses on an exception basis.

To streamline this process, licenses for some components are whitelisted as per
the CNCF Whitelist Policy (adopted by the CNCF Governing Board on 2018-05-01).
This whitelisting policy is described below.
To streamline this process, licenses for some components are allowed as per
the CNCF Allowlist License Policy (adopted by the CNCF Governing Board on 2018-05-01).

Components that are not under Apache-2.0, and that do not satisfy the Whitelist
Policy, remain subject to review and exception approval by the Governing Board.
Components that are not under Apache-2.0, and that do not satisfy the Allowlist License Policy, remain subject to review and exception approval by the Governing Board.

## CNCF Whitelist Policy
## CNCF Allowlist License Policy

A third-party component under a non-Apache 2.0 license is deemed automatically
approved by the Governing Board for inclusion in a CNCF codebase as an
Expand All @@ -35,11 +33,11 @@ following:
2. the component was created on Github at least 12 months ago and has at
least 10 stars or 10 forks.

### Approved Licenses for Whitelist
### Approved Licenses for Allowlist

To be approved as “whitelisted,” a third-party component must be fully
To be approved as “allowlisted,” a third-party component must be fully
licenseable under one or more of the following licenses, and must meet the
other whitelist criteria set forth in the [Whitelist Policy] above.
other allowlist criteria set forth in the [Allowlist License Policy] above.

License IDs refer to the SPDX License List at https://spdx.org/licenses, except
where a URL is specified below for licenses that are not on the SPDX License
Expand All @@ -56,6 +54,6 @@ List.
- Zlib
- Google patent license for Golang (https://golang.org/PATENTS)

[Whitelist Policy]: #cncf-whitelist-policy
[Approved Licenses]: #approved-licenses-for-whitelist
[Allowlist License Policy]: #cncf-allowlist-policy
[Approved Licenses]: #approved-licenses-for-allowlist
[CNCF Charter]: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/charter.md

0 comments on commit c9043bf

Please sign in to comment.