ACES is a project hosted by the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and follows the open source software best practice policies of the ASWF TAC with guidance from the Linux Foundation.
ACES is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. New contributions should abide by that license.
To maintain the legal integrity of the project's codebase, we require all contributors to complete a Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
ACES uses EasyCLA for managing CLAs, which automatically checks to ensure CLAs are signed by a contributor before a commit can be merged.
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If you are an individual writing the code on your own time and you're SURE you are the sole owner of any intellectual property you contribute, you can sign the CLA as an individual contributor.
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If you are writing the code as part of your job, or if there is any possibility that your employers might think they own any intellectual property you create, then you should use the Corporate Contributor Licence Agreement.
The ACES CLA's are the standard forms used by Linux Foundation projects and recommended by the ASWF TAC.
Every commit must be signed off. That is, every commit log message must include
a “Signed-off-by” line (generated, for example, with “git commit --signoff”
or "git commit -s"), indicating that the committer wrote the code and has the
right to release it under the license.
Here is an example Signed-off-by line, which indicates that the submitter accepts the DCO:
Signed-off-by: John Doe <john.doe@example.com>
If John Doe has signed an individual CLA, or his corporation's CLA Manager has included his GitHub account in a corporate CLA approved list, his pull request can be merged. Otherwise the EasyCLA system will provide instructions on signing a CLA, or request inclusion in an existing corporate CLA approved list.
See the ASWF TAC CONTRIBUTING.md file for more information on this requirement.
All new source files should begin with a copyright and license stating:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright Contributors to the ACES Project.