[Incubator] community projects - contributing / license files

[Jody Garnett]

If you need a copy of the OSGeo Community Project logo for your website
there is one on the wiki -
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects

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Jody Garnett

On 25 April 2017 at 14:00, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> The OSGeo live team is contacting project leads (to double check code
> locations and project stats).
>
> I am reminded to catch up with OSGeo community projects and check if they
> have a CONTRIBUTING.md file and a LICENSE file. This forms a quick litnus
> test to see if a repository is open to collaboration and has an open source
> license.
>
> Using pgrouting as an example: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting
>
> 1) CONTRIBUTING.md - nice and clear and friendly :)
>
> 2) LICENSE - does not have one that is automatically picked up by github
>
> When I dig I can see that the code is GPL clearly in the headers, the
> advantage of using a LICENSE file on github is that github provides a
> sanity check to other developers.
>
> - https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/
> - https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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