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This document is subsumed by the Governance Document

This page describes the intellectual property and copyright of Jenkins source code, as well as their implications to contributions.

Core

The jenkins Github repository, which is the main portion used to produce jenkins.war, is licensed under the MIT license. Once Jenkins finds an umbrella foundation to call home, contributors to core will be asked to sign a contributors agreement. This CLA will be based on Apache's contributor agreements:

Until this arrangement finalizes, for the time being, we'd like to make sure that prospective core contributers are aware of this, and they are OK with our asking to sign something like this down the road.

Core contributors may commit changes found in Oracle Hudson's code base as long as the following criteria have been met:

  • The file in the Oracle code base is clearly marked as MIT license
  • The contributor maintains the copyright attribution in the header when bringing the change over
  • The contributor makes an attribution to the source as part of the commit message.

Plugins

All the other parts of the source tree (such as plugins, tools, and experimental code), are owned by their respective contributors. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the license will be MIT, and to avoid the proliferation of licenses, we recommend you choose the MIT license as well. We also highly recommend you use the <license> tag in your POM.

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