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Refer to CNCF allowlist for 3rd-party licenses approved for inclusion in CNCF repos (#2506)
* Refer to CNCF allowlist for 3rd-party licenses approved for inclusion in CNCF repos This came up in open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#5305 Refs: #2504 * mention and refer to the CNCF conditions for including third-party code
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Any contributed third-party code must originally be Apache 2.0-Licensed or must
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carry a permissive software license that is compatible when combining with
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Apache 2.0 License. At this moment, BSD and MIT are the only
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[OSI-approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) known to be compatible.
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Apache 2.0 License. The [CNCF Allowlist License Policy](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md#cncf-allowlist-license-policy)
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describes the requirements for including third-party code in CNCF codebases,
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along with a list of approved compatible licenses.
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If you make substantial changes to the third-party code, _prepend_ the contributed
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third party file with OpenTelemetry's copyright notice.

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