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Add licensing guidance to the org owners guidance
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github-management/org-owners-guide.md

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It is easier to start new code in a Kubernetes organization than it is to
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transfer in existing code.
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## Licensing Guidance
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Section 11 of the [CNCF Charter] provides guidance on how to license code and
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documentation owned by the CNCF projects. However, it doesn't explicitly cover
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situations where a repo may have mixed content (such as repos that contain both
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code and documentation living alongside each other).
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For clarity, here is the guidance for Kubernetes GitHub organizations:
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- If a repo contains only code, it should be licensed under the
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[Apache License, Version 2.0].
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- If a repo contains only documentation, it should be licensed under the
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[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].
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- If a repo contains both code and documentation, it should be licensed under
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the [Apache License, Version 2.0].
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## Team Guidance
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### Nomenclature
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[kubernetes-template-project]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes-template-project
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[SIG Repository]: /github-management/kubernetes-repositories.md##sig-repositories
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[template repo]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-repository-from-a-template
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[CNCF Charter]: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.md
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[Apache License, Version 2.0]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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