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Contributing Guidelines

(See http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/packages for overall format and contstruction)

All packages you commit or submit by pull-request should follow these simple guidelines:

  • Package a version which is still maintained by the upstream author.
  • Will be updated regularly to maintained and supported versions.
  • Have no dependencies outside the OpenWrt core packages or this repository feed.
  • Have been tested to compile with the correct includes and dependencies. Also, test with "Compile with full language support" found under "General Build Settings" set.
  • Best of all -- it works as expected!

Makefile contents should contain:

  • An up-to-date copyright notice. Use OpenWrt if no other present or supply your own.
  • A (PKG_)MAINTAINER definition listing either yourself or another person in the field.
    (E.g.: PKG_MAINTAINER:= Joe D. Hacker <jdh@jdhs-email-provider.org>)
  • A PKG_LICENSE and optional PKG_LICENSE_FILE definition showing the license type and what file(s) in the package, if present, contain it respectively. The license type tag should be in the form suggested by the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) license list. Using these normalized tags will aide us in filtering packages based on license type. See below for a abbreviated list of some common license tags. (E.g.: PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0+; PKG_LICENSE_FILE:=COPYING)

Commits and pull-requests:

If you have commit access:

  • Do NOT use git push --force.
  • Do NOT commit to other maintainer's packages without their consent.
  • Use Pull Requests if you are unsure and to suggest changes to other maintainers.

Release Branches:

  • Branches named "for-XX.YY" (e.g. for-14.07) are release branches.
  • These branches are built with the respective OpenWrt release and are created during the release stabilisation phase.
  • Please ONLY cherry-pick or commit security and bug-fixes to these branches.
  • Do NOT add new packages and do NOT do major upgrades of packages here.
  • If you are unsure if your change is suitable, please use a pull request.

####Common LICENSE tags (short list)
(Complete list can be found at: http://spdx.org/licenses)

Full Name Identifier
Apache License 1.0 Apache-1.0
Apache License 1.1 Apache-1.1
Apache License 2.0 Apache-2.0
Artistic License 1.0 Artistic-1.0
Artistic License 1.0 (Perl) Artistic-1.0-Perl
Artistic License 1.0 w/clause 8 Artistic-1.0-cl8
Artistic License 2.0 Artistic-2.0
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License BSD-2-Clause
BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD
BSD 2-clause NetBSD License BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD-3-Clause
BSD 3-clause Clear License BSD-3-Clause-Clear
BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License BSD-4-Clause
BSD Protection License BSD-Protection
BSD with attribution BSD-3-Clause-Attribution
BSD-4-Clause (University of California-Specific) BSD-4-Clause-UC
GNU General Public License v1.0 only GPL-1.0
GNU General Public License v1.0 or later GPL-1.0+
GNU General Public License v2.0 only GPL-2.0
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later GPL-2.0+
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GPL-3.0
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GPL-3.0+
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only LGPL-2.1
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later LGPL-2.1+
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only LGPL-3.0
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later LGPL-3.0+
GNU Library General Public License v2 only LGPL-2.0
GNU Library General Public License v2 or later LGPL-2.0+
Fair License Fair
ISC License ISC
MIT License MIT
No Limit Public License NLPL
OpenSSL License OpenSSL
X11 License X11
zlib License Zlib