1Contributions to hostap.git 2--------------------------- 3 4This software is distributed under a permissive open source license to 5allow it to be used in any projects, whether open source or proprietary. 6Contributions to the project are welcome and it is important to maintain 7clear record of contributions and terms under which they are licensed. 8To help with this, following procedure is used to allow acceptance and 9recording of the terms. 10 11All contributions are expected to be licensed under the modified BSD 12license (see below). Acknowledgment of the terms is tracked through 13inclusion of Signed-off-by tag in the contributions at the end of the 14commit log message. This tag indicates that the contributor agrees with 15the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) version 1.1 terms (see below; 16also available from http://developercertificate.org/). 17 18 19The current requirements for contributions to hostap.git 20-------------------------------------------------------- 21 22To indicate your acceptance of Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 23terms, please add the following line to the end of the commit message 24for each contribution you make to the project: 25 26Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org> 27 28using your real name. Pseudonyms or anonymous contributions cannot 29unfortunately be accepted. 30 31 32The preferred method of submitting the contribution to the project is by 33email to the hostap mailing list: 34hostap@lists.infradead.org 35Note that the list may require subscription before accepting message 36without moderation. 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