From 20a8a1e37b1f224ee0ba09a7e91fd4fc75906fa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fOuttaMyPaint Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:39:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix: backfill DCO and inbound license grant section in CONTRIBUTING.md Tracks DTD#46. Adds the verbatim grant paragraph and Signed-off-by guidance mandated by standards/licensing.md but previously absent from this repo's CONTRIBUTING.md. Made-with: Cursor --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d6a6cdd..aed9574 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -46,3 +46,29 @@ See `.cursorrules` for writing conventions. Key points: ## Reporting Issues Open an issue on GitHub. Include steps to reproduce, expected behavior, and actual behavior. + +## Developer Certificate of Origin and Inbound License Grant + +This project uses CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 as its outbound license, which forbids derivatives. Every pull request is a derivative. Contributions are accepted inbound under a broader grant via the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), which resolves the conflict so the project can accept and redistribute contributions. + +### Required grant + +By submitting a contribution to this repository, you certify that you have the right to do so under the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) 1.1, and you grant TMHSDigital a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contribution under the project's current license (CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0) or any successor license chosen by the project. + +### DCO sign-off + +Every commit in a pull request must have a `Signed-off-by:` trailer matching the commit author: + +``` +Signed-off-by: Jane Developer +``` + +Signing is done at commit time: + +```bash +git commit -s -m "feat: add new skill" +``` + +The GitHub DCO App enforces this on every PR. + +For the full inbound/outbound model and rationale, see [`standards/licensing.md`](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Developer-Tools-Directory/blob/main/standards/licensing.md) in the Developer-Tools-Directory meta-repo.