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These are the guidelines third party developers need to observe when contributing code to open source software maintained or distributed by Nokia in the Maemo platform: | These are the guidelines third party developers need to observe when contributing code to open source software maintained or distributed by Nokia in the Maemo platform: | ||
- | == Contributions welcome! == | + | === Contributions welcome! === |
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The Maemo SW team at Nokia encourages revision and feedback of the open source components of the Maemo platform and related open source applications. | The Maemo SW team at Nokia encourages revision and feedback of the open source components of the Maemo platform and related open source applications. | ||
- | == Sources == | + | === Sources === |
- | + | The sources of the Maemo platform and related Nokia developed open source applications are available at [URL with sources of lastest version]. | |
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- | + | === Releases === | |
+ | The best timing for contributions is prior to the final version of a release. Alphas and betas are released for that purpose. | ||
- | + | Early contributions on new releases are encouraged too, noting that UI changes are more difficult to be accepted. | |
- | + | === Upstream === | |
+ | Patches to software components developed upstream need to be submitted to their original projects. | ||
- | + | It is recommended to notify in bugs.maemo.org the contribution to the related Maemo SW developers by providing URLs to the bug/patch submitted upstream. They might help pushing the patch and/or committing it to the Maemo related component. | |
- | + | === License === | |
+ | The license of the code contributed is the one of the component patched. | ||
- | + | === Copyright === | |
+ | Authors of code accepted in a software component are entitled to get copyright assignment when the solution provided conforms a creative work. | ||
- | + | Bugfixes are generally not considered work subject to copyright assignment. | |
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