Add general project policies to governance documentation

- Create GOVERNANCE.md with LF Projects policies and licensing requirements
- Add General Project Policies section to governance page with same content
- Includes Apache 2.0 license requirements and copyright policies

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>

Author: dsp-ant

GOVERNANCE.md

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+General Project Policies
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+Model Context Protocol has been established as Model Context Protocol a Series of LF Projects, LLC. Policies applicable to Model Context Protocol and participants in Model Context Protocol, including guidelines on the usage of trademarks, are located at [https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/](https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/). Governance changes approved as per the provisions of this governance document must also be approved by LF Projects, LLC.
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+Model Context Protocol participants acknowledge that the copyright in all new contributions will be retained by the copyright holder as independent works of authorship and that no contributor or copyright holder will be required to assign copyrights to the project.
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+Except as described below, all code and specification contributions to the project must be made using the Apache License, Version 2.0 (available here: [https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)) (the “Project License”).
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+All outbound code and specifications will be made available under the Project License. The Core Maintainers may approve the use of an alternative open license or licenses for inbound or outbound contributions on an exception basis.
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+All documentation (excluding specifications) will be made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

docs/community/governance.mdx

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 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) follows a formal governance model to ensure transparent decision-making and community participation. This document outlines how the project is organized and how decisions are made.
 
+## General Project Policies
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+Model Context Protocol has been established as Model Context Protocol a Series of LF Projects, LLC. Policies applicable to Model Context Protocol and participants in Model Context Protocol, including guidelines on the usage of trademarks, are located at [https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/](https://www.lfprojects.org/policies/). Governance changes approved as per the provisions of this governance document must also be approved by LF Projects, LLC.
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+Model Context Protocol participants acknowledge that the copyright in all new contributions will be retained by the copyright holder as independent works of authorship and that no contributor or copyright holder will be required to assign copyrights to the project.
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+Except as described below, all code and specification contributions to the project must be made using the Apache License, Version 2.0 (available here: [https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)) (the "Project License").
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+All outbound code and specifications will be made available under the Project License. The Core Maintainers may approve the use of an alternative open license or licenses for inbound or outbound contributions on an exception basis.
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+All documentation (excluding specifications) will be made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.
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 ## Technical Governance
 
 The MCP project adopts a hierarchical structure, similar to Python, PyTorch and other open source projects: