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@@ -8,10 +8,29 @@ clear record of contributions and terms under which they are licensed.
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To help with this, following procedure is used to allow acceptance and
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recording of the terms.
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-These terms are similar to the process used in Linux kernel development.
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-The items (a) through (d) are identical to the Developer's Certificate
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-of Origin 1.1. To enable cleaner licensing option to be provided in the
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-future, an additional item (e) is included.
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+All contributions are expected to be licensed under the modified BSD
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+license (see below). Acknowledgment of the terms is tracked through
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+inclusion of Signed-off-by tag in the contributions at the end of the
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+commit log message. This tag indicates that the contributor agrees with
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+the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) version 1.1 terms (see below;
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+also available from http://developercertificate.org/).
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+
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+The current requirements for contributions to hostap.git
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+--------------------------------------------------------
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+To indicate your acceptance of Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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+terms, please add the following line to the end of the commit message
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+for each contribution you make to the project:
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+
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+Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
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+
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+using your real name. Pseudonyms or anonymous contributions cannot
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+unfortunately be accepted.
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+
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+History of license and contributions terms
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+------------------------------------------
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Until February 11, 2012, in case of most files in hostap.git, "under the
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open source license indicated in the file" means that the contribution
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@@ -27,15 +46,39 @@ licensed until GPL v2. In case of most files in hostap.git, "under the
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open source license indicated in the file" means that the contribution
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is licensed under the modified BSD license (see below).
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+Until February 13, 2014, the project used an extended version of the DCO
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+that included the identical items (a) through (d) from DCO 1.1 and an
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+additional item (e):
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+(e) The contribution can be licensed under the modified BSD license
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+ as shown below even in case of files that are currently licensed
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+ under other terms.
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+
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+This was used during the period when some of the files included the old
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+license terms. Acceptance of this extended DCO version was indicated
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+with a Signed-hostap tag in the commit message. This additional item (e)
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+was used to collect explicit approval to license the contribution with
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+only the modified BSD license (see below), i.e., without the GPL v2
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+option. This was done to allow simpler licensing terms to be used in the
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+future. It should be noted that the modified BSD license is compatible
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+with GNU GPL and as such, this possible move to simpler licensing option
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+does not prevent use of this software in GPL projects.
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+
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-The additional item (e) is used to collect explicit approval to license
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-the contribution with only the modified BSD license (see below), i.e.,
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-without the GPL v2 option. This was done to allow simpler licensing
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-terms to be used in the future. It should be noted that the modified BSD
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-license is compatible with GNU GPL and as such, this possible move to
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-simpler licensing option does not prevent use of this software in
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-GPL projects.
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+===[ start quote from http://developercertificate.org/ ]=======================
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+Developer Certificate of Origin
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+Version 1.1
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+
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+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
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+660 York Street, Suite 102,
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+San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
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+
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+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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+
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+
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+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
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@@ -61,22 +104,11 @@ By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
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maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
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this project or the open source license(s) involved.
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-Additionally, I certify that:
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-
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-(e) The contribution can be licensed under the modified BSD license
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- as shown below even in case of files that are currently licensed
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- under other terms.
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-
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-
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-To indicate your acceptance of these terms, please add the following
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-line to each contribution you make to the project:
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-
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-Signed-hostap: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
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-
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-using your real name. Pseudonyms or anonymous contributions cannot
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-unfortunately be accepted.
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+===[ end quote from http://developercertificate.org/ ]=========================
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+The license terms used for hostap.git files
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+-------------------------------------------
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Modified BSD license (no advertisement clause):
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