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openairinterface5g/CONTRIBUTING.md
Robert Schmidt 8107939f08 Change OAI license to CSSL v1.0 (and others)
- all RAN code, CI code, configuration files, dockerfiles, in CSSL v1.0
- all deployment code (openshift, charts, ancillary files like shell
  scripts), in MIT
- documentation in CC-BY-4.0
- exceptions might apply and are listed in NOTICE
- there is a new LICENSES folder with all licenses
- CONTRIBUTIONS.md has been updated accordingly

For automated changes based on OAI PL v1.1:

    perl -i~ -0pe 's/\/\*.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n#?/\/*\n * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0\n/s' **/*.{c,h,cpp}
    perl -i~ -0pe 's/\/\*.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n#?/\/*\n * SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0\n/s' **/*.ts
    perl -i~ -0pe 's/<!--.*Licensed to the OpenAirInterface.*openairinterface.org\n.*-->/<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-CSSL-1.0 -->/s' **/*.xml

The rest (cmake, files with missing license, cmake) manually.
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Contributing to OpenAirInterface

We want to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible.

Please refer to the steps described on our website: How to contribute to OAI.

  1. Sign and return a Contributor License Agreement to OAI team.
  2. Register on Eurecom GitLab Server if you do not have any.
    • We recommend that you register with a professional or student email address.
    • If your email domain (@domain.com) is not whitelisted, please contact us (mailto:contact@openairinterface.org).
    • Eurecom GitLab does NOT accept public email domains.
  3. Provide the OAI team with the username of this account to (mailto:contact@openairinterface.org) ; we will give you the developer rights on this repository.
  4. The contributing policies are described in the corresponding documentation page.
    • PLEASE DO NOT FORK the OAI repository on your own Eurecom GitLab account. It just eats up space on our servers.
    • You can fork onto another hosting system. But we will NOT accept a merge request from a forked repository.
      • This decision was made for the license reasons.
      • The Continuous Integration will reject your merge request.

License

By contributing to OpenAirInterface, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under

  1. CSSL v1.0 license: for RAN and UE related source code and test scripts
  2. CC-BY-4.0: All the documentation
  3. MIT: Orchestration (helm-charts, docker compose)

Certain files are using different licenses; you can read about them in NOTICE.