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    Remove ambiguities in the COPYING file; add CONTRIBUTING file · 26ea2cce
    Lars Kurth authored
    
    
    COPYING file:
    The motivation of this change is to make it easier for new
    contributors to conduct a license and patent review, WITHOUT
    changing any licenses.
    - Remove references to BSD-style licenses as we have more
      common license exceptions and replace with "other license
      stanzas"
    - List the most common situations under which code is licensed
      under licenses other than GPLv2 (section "Licensing Exceptions")
    - List the most common non-GPLv2 licenses that are in use in
      this repository based on a recent FOSSology scan (section
      "Licensing Exceptions")
    - List other license related conventions within the project
      to make it easier to conduct a license review.
    - Clarify the incoming license as its omission has confused
      past contributors (section "Contributions")
    
    CONTRIBUTION file:
    The motivation of this file is to make it easier for contributors
    to find contribution related resources. Add information on existing
    license related conventions to avoid unintentional future licensing
    issues. Provide templates for copyright headers for the most commonly
    used licenses in this repository.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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