Development/Developers

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Here is where we try to keep track of who has contributed to the project, and a list of their public license statements, so we can manage provenance of the code and more simply migrate to an MPLv2/LGPLv3+ license.

Changes to this page are watched carefully - and are related to audit tooling - please do not radically alter, re-structure, or change this page unless you know what you're doing

N.B. The statements below are blanket statements covering all contributions, unless otherwise noted.

Example Code Contributor Statement
A nice minimal statement in an E-mail for a code developer looks like this:

All of my past & future contributions to LibreOffice may be   licensed under the MPLv2/LGPLv3+ dual license.

Slight variation to suit your personal taste is fine as long as the intention is clear.

Example Artist Statement
For some forms of art-work, such as clipart and templates - we routinely get queries from document authors as to licensing, inclusion in books etc. To provide the simplest and widest possible usage of clipart, templates etc. we encourage the use of the CC0 license, so a statement of this form:

To the extent possible under law, I waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights to my past & future contributions to LibreOffice: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Where do I send the Statement?
It's best to send your statement to a public, archived list. We suggest the developers' list (no subscription required):
 * libreoffice@undefinedlists.freedesktop.org

If you can, it's great to use Subject:  - that helps search the archive nicely.

Please send the statement from the same email address that you also use as the author email address in your git commits, and note that the email address (and the license statement you send) will become publicly visible.

Please only send the statement no earlier than when you post your first submission to gerrit and ensure you have permission from your parents!

Helper for converting a license statement email into a wiki table row
Note: this does not yet work as there needs to be a change to the privacy policy (the mailing list archive is hosted on freedesktop.org).

Paste a mailing list archive URL into the field below and click the button. The wiki markup will appear in the element below the field. The markup will be copied into your clipboard. If it is not copied automatically for some reason, you can click the markup once and it will be copied.

Individuals
Many are sorted by last name, first name under letter by letter. Many are sorted under first name before last, under word by word.

Validity of this list
This list is not the authorative license list, the list does not contain all people who have issued a license statement and in some cases it contains people that have not issued a license statement.

This list is not centrally maintained. The authorative list is kept in the gitdm-config repo.

Companies
Companies giving blanket licensing statements for their contribution.