packages/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing Guidelines

(See http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/packages for overall format and construction)

All packages you commit or submit by pull-request should follow these simple guidelines:

• Package a version which is still maintained by the upstream author.
• Will be updated regularly to maintained and supported versions.
• Have no dependencies outside the OpenWrt core packages or this repository feed.
• Have been tested to compile with the correct includes and dependencies. Also, test with “Compile with full language support” found under “General Build Settings” set.
• Best of all -- it works as expected!

Makefile contents should contain:

• An up-to-date copyright notice. Use OpenWrt if no other present or supply your own.
• A (PKG_)MAINTAINER definition listing either yourself or another person in the field.
  (E.g.: PKG_MAINTAINER:= Joe D. Hacker <jdh@jdhs-email-provider.org>)
• A PKG_LICENSE tag declaring the main license of the package. (E.g.: PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0+) Please use SPDX identifiers if possible (see list at the bottom).
• An optional PKG_LICENSE_FILE including the filename of the license-file in the source-package. (E.g.: PKG_LICENSE_FILE:=COPYING)

Commits and pull-requests:

• Have a useful description prefixed with the package name
  (E.g.: “foopkg: Add libzot dependency”)
• Include Signed-off-by in the comment
  (See https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches#a10.Signyourwork)

If you have commit access:

• Do NOT use git push --force.
• Do NOT commit to other maintainer’s packages without their consent.
• Use Pull Requests if you are unsure and to suggest changes to other maintainers.

Gaining commit access:

• We will gladly grant commit access to responsible contributors who have made useful pull requests and / or feedback or patches to this repository or OpenWrt in general. Please include your request for commit access in your next pull request or ticket.

Release Branches:

• Branches named “for-XX.YY” (e.g. for-14.07) are release branches.
• These branches are built with the respective OpenWrt release and are created during the release stabilisation phase.
• Please ONLY cherry-pick or commit security and bug-fixes to these branches.
• Do NOT add new packages and do NOT do major upgrades of packages here.
• If you are unsure if your change is suitable, please use a pull request.

Common LICENSE tags (short list)

(Complete list can be found at: http://spdx.org/licenses)

Full Name	Identifier
Apache License 1.0	Apache-1.0
Apache License 1.1	Apache-1.1
Apache License 2.0	Apache-2.0
Artistic License 1.0	Artistic-1.0
Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)	Artistic-1.0-Perl
Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8	Artistic-1.0-cl8
Artistic License 2.0	Artistic-2.0
BSD 2-clause “Simplified” License	BSD-2-Clause
BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License	BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
BSD 2-clause NetBSD License	BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD
BSD 3-clause “New” or “Revised” License	BSD-3-Clause
BSD 3-clause Clear License	BSD-3-Clause-Clear
BSD 4-clause “Original” or “Old” License	BSD-4-Clause
BSD Protection License	BSD-Protection
BSD with attribution	BSD-3-Clause-Attribution
BSD-4-Clause (University of California-Specific)	BSD-4-Clause-UC
GNU General Public License v1.0 only	GPL-1.0
GNU General Public License v1.0 or later	GPL-1.0+
GNU General Public License v2.0 only	GPL-2.0
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later	GPL-2.0+
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	GPL-3.0
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	GPL-3.0+
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only	LGPL-2.1
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later	LGPL-2.1+
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	LGPL-3.0
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later	LGPL-3.0+
GNU Library General Public License v2 only	LGPL-2.0
GNU Library General Public License v2 or later	LGPL-2.0+
Fair License	Fair
ISC License	ISC
MIT License	MIT
No Limit Public License	NLPL
OpenSSL License	OpenSSL
X11 License	X11
zlib License	Zlib