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Relicensing: update CONTRIBUTING.md
authorMatthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 05:17:38 +0000 (23:17 -0600)
committerMatthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:28:34 +0000 (21:28 -0600)
CONTRIBUTING.md

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@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ else. If you are new to the project then we will work with you to ensure
 your contributions are formatted with this style, so please do not think of
 it as a road block if you would like to contribute some code.
 
-The library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License; while
-you will retain copyright on your contributions, all changes to the core
-library must be provided under this common license.
+As a contributor to this project, you agree that all of your contributions
+to deal.II (a) be governed by the <b>Developer Certificate of Origin
+version 1.1</b> and (b) be dual-licensed under the terms of the <b>Apache
+License 2.0</b> with <b>LLVM Exception</b> and the <b>GNU Lesser General
+Public License v2.1 or later</b>; see LICENSE.md for details. The deal.II
+project does not require copyright assignments for contributions. This
+means that the copyright for code contributions in the deal.II project is
+held by its respective contributors.

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