License Policy

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Policy

New projects developed in collaboration with the Bath Open Source Society (BOSS) (excluding new forks of existing projects not developed in collaboration with BOSS) MUST be licensed under Apache2.0 WITH LLVM-exception.
1. These projects MUST include “Bath Open Source Society Contributors” in the name of the copyright owner field of the copyright notice.
2. These projects MAY include maintainer and contributor name(s) in the copyright owner field.
3. These projects MUST include a NOTICE text file as described in the Notice section of this document.
4. These projects MUST require contributors to provide written confirmation that they have read and accepted the Developers Certificate of Origin (DCO).
5. Contributors MUST be made aware of the University of Bath’s Intellectual Property policy at the time of confirmation being provided in Paragraph 1.4, in order for the confirmation to be considered valid for the purposes of Paragraph 1.4.
Existing projects developed with previous or existing collaboration with BOSS SHOULD be licensed or relicensed under Apache2.0 WITH LLVM-exception, subject to the unanimous agreement of all current maintainer(s), contributor(s), and copyright holder(s).
1. If an existing project is relicensed under Clause 2, the rules in Paragraphs 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 apply.

Notice

Paragraph 1.3 requires the inclusion of a NOTICE text file with the following content:

This product includes software developed by the Bath Open Source Society (BOSS) and its contributors and is subject to the BOSS license policy (https://boss.bathcs.com/policies/licenses).

Developers Certificate of Origin

We have borrowed the Developers Certificate of Origin (DCO) from the Linux kernel project for legal reasons. For usage context, see Paragraph 1.4 in the license policy above.

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.


Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.