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6 | 6 | <h2>PHP Contributor Guidelines for Code Developers</h2> |
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8 | 8 | <p> |
9 | | - Before you complete the form to request a Git account, you must understand and accept the principles under which PHP |
10 | | - itself is developed. These are summarized in the next paragraph. |
| 9 | + Before you contribute code to PHP, you must understand and accept the principles under which PHP itself is |
| 10 | + developed. These are summarized in the next paragraph. |
11 | 11 | </p> |
| 12 | + |
12 | 13 | <p> |
13 | | - Any code contributed to PHP must be contributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License or other compatible, |
14 | | - permissive BSD-style license. PHP is distributed under the <a href="/license/#bsd-3-clause">Modified BSD License</a>. |
15 | | - This includes implementation code, test cases, utility scripts and tools—that is, all code associated with the PHP |
16 | | - project. If you contribute code that isn't entirely your own (for example, it may be partially derived from other Open |
17 | | - Source software), you should add a comment to the source code indicating the origin and license of the original code. |
18 | | - If you are unsure of the license, you must confirm with the owner that they grant permission to contribute it to PHP |
19 | | - under the Modified BSD License. |
| 14 | + Any code contributed to PHP must be contributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License or other compatible, |
| 15 | + permissive license. PHP is distributed under the <a href="/license/#bsd-3-clause">Modified BSD License</a>. This |
| 16 | + includes implementation code, test cases, utility scripts and tools—that is, all code associated with the PHP |
| 17 | + project. If you contribute code that isn't entirely your own (for example, it may be partially derived from other |
| 18 | + Open Source software), you should add a comment to the source code indicating the origin and license of the original |
| 19 | + code. If you are unsure of the license, you must confirm with the owner that they grant permission to contribute it |
| 20 | + to PHP under the terms of the Modified BSD License or other compatible license. |
20 | 21 | </p> |
| 22 | + |
21 | 23 | <p> |
22 | | - Specifically regarding source code licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or GNU Lesser General Public |
23 | | - License (LGPL): |
| 24 | + Specifically regarding source code licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL): |
24 | 25 | </p> |
| 26 | + |
25 | 27 | <ul> |
26 | | - <li>GPL or LGPL licensed code cannot be used as a basis for any derived work contributed to PHP.</li> |
27 | | - <li>Extensions which link to GPL licensed libraries will not be accepted.</li> |
28 | | - <li>Extensions which link to LGPL licensed libraries are strongly discouraged.</li> |
| 28 | + <li>GPL-licensed code cannot be used as a basis for any work contributed to PHP.</li> |
| 29 | + <li>Extensions which link to GPL-licensed libraries will not be accepted.</li> |
29 | 30 | </ul> |
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32 | 32 | <h2>Guidelines for Related Projects</h2> |
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