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Add license check to contributor checklist #13211

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@britter britter commented May 22, 2020

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We need to make sure all code introduced in the Gradle code base can be licensed under terms of Apache License 2.0. This can two ways:

  • eitherthe contributor wrote the code themselves and granted us the permit distribute it under terms of AL v2.0 by creating the PR
  • if they copied the code from another project the original code needs to be licensed under a license that allows us include it. Furthermore we need to make sure we follow all requirements defined by that license, e.g. adding attribution in NOTICE.txt.

@britter britter requested a review from ljacomet May 22, 2020 14:50
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@ljacomet PTAL

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Fixes #?
### Contributor Checklist
- [ ] [Review Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [ ] Make sure that all commits are [signed off](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt---signoff) to indicate that you agree to the terms of [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://developercertificate.org/).
- [ ] Make sure all contributed code can be distributed under the terms of the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/LICENSE), e.g. the code was written by yourself or the original code is licensed under [a license compatible to Apache License 2.0](https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html).
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I'm not sure we should link to Apache but I thought it might be a good thing to give people some guidance when they absolutely need to copy something.

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I do not see how a link could be bad. So 👍 from me.

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Fixes #?
### Contributor Checklist
- [ ] [Review Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [ ] Make sure that all commits are [signed off](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt---signoff) to indicate that you agree to the terms of [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://developercertificate.org/).
- [ ] Make sure all contributed code can be distributed under the terms of the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/LICENSE), e.g. the code was written by yourself or the original code is licensed under [a license compatible to Apache License 2.0](https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html).
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I do not see how a link could be bad. So 👍 from me.

@britter britter merged commit 36cc118 into master May 26, 2020
@britter britter deleted the bene/add-license-checkbox branch May 26, 2020 08:10
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