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authorThomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>2019-06-24 09:27:03 +0200
committerThomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>2019-06-24 09:27:03 +0200
commit1ed338fe5e92870005b251788be04ee05a14f3b4 (patch)
tree6e99dced6d67f094527469905b5aed5a1b494390
parentbcbc39b240aa1f120d5014d5624408a92bee0478 (diff)
downloadNetworkManager-1ed338fe5e92870005b251788be04ee05a14f3b4.tar.gz
CONTRIBUTING: reword "novel contributions" to "new contributions"
The meaning of "novel" and "new" here is the same, but "novel" als has a meaning related to patents. So avoid that confusion.
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ version 2 or later (LGPL-2.0+). That is for example the case for libnm.
For historical reasons, the daemon itself is licensed under terms of GNU General
Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0+). See the license comment in the source
files.
-Note that all novel contributions to NetworkManager MUST be made under terms of
+Note that all new contributions to NetworkManager MUST be made under terms of
LGPL-2.0+, that is also the case for parts that are currently licensed GPL-2.0+.
The reason for that is that we might eventually relicense everything as LGPL and
new contributions already must agree with that future change.