Docs: Documentation update. Copyright, licensing.
- Add Copyright placement guidance
- Clarify licencing information
- Remove a small typo
Signed-off-by: Anton Komlev <anton.komlev@arm.com>
Change-Id: I4c7cd0dd5607d6e60f6d7f1e87adefcc20006ba0
diff --git a/docs/contributing/contributing_process.rst b/docs/contributing/contributing_process.rst
index 04cea4c..11dabda 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/contributing_process.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing/contributing_process.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,23 @@
Use ``git commit -s`` to add a ``Signed-off-by`` trailer at the end of the
commit log message.
See `git-commit <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit>`_ for details.
+ - Ensure that each changed file has the correct copyright and license
+ information. Files that entirely consist of contributions to this project
+ should have a copyright notice and BSD-3-Clause SPDX license identifier of
+ the form as shown in :doc:`lic`. Files that contain changes to imported
+ Third Party IP files should retain their original copyright and license
+ notices.
+
+ Contributors can add the following copyright note, (whilst) it is suggested
+ to update copyright note only for *major*, non-trivial changes.
+
+ ::
+
+ Copyright (c) XXXX[-YYYY], <OWNER>. All rights reserved.
+
+ where XXXX is the year of first contribution and YYYY is the optional year
+ of most recent contribution. <OWNER> is your or your company name.
+
- Add a `Change-Id <https://review.trustedfirmware.org/Documentation/user-changeid.html>`_
to the commit message, which can be generated any way you like (e.g. from
the SHA of the commit).