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Authors of code accepted in a software component are entitled to get copyright assignment when the solution provided conforms a creative work.  
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Authors of a creative work retain their copyrights. Bugfixes are generally not considered creative work and don't generate copyrights.
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Bugfixes are generally not considered work subject to copyright assignment.
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In case of doubt check with the maintainers of the component beforehand.

Revision as of 11:49, 21 November 2008

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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:

Contents

Contributions welcome!

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

The sources of the Maemo platform and related Nokia developed open source applications are available at [URL with sources of lastest version].

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 might be difficult to be accepted because of design, localization, usability and end user testing implications.

Submissions

Bugfixes need to be referenced in existing or new bugs filed at http://bugs.maemo.org, including the keyword "Patch".

Developers can attach patches to the bug report or can host them in their own git directory at git.maemo.org (planned).

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.

If the upstream is not Maemo SW but another team at Nokia (for instance Qt SW) then their contribution guidelines prevail.

Quality

Software contributions need to take into account the Maemo quality considerations and [1] coding style].

License

The license of the code contributed is the one of the component patched.

Copyright

Authors of a creative work retain their copyrights. Bugfixes are generally not considered creative work and don't generate copyrights.

In case of doubt check with the maintainers of the component beforehand.