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If you would like to make code contributions to our community, please refer to our Code Contributions and Member Types pages.

Licenses for TianoCore Contributions

The preferred license for TianoCore is BSD+Patent. When that is not possible, then contributions using the following licenses can be accepted:

• BSD (2-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
• BSD (3-clause): http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
• MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
• Python-2.0: http://opensource.org/licenses/Python-2.0
• Zlib: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib

Documenting Licenses in Source Projects

The full license should be documented in a License.txt file, found in the root of a repository.

Example: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/License.txt

Source file headers should contain an SPDX identifier of the license. An example is provided on the BSD+Patent page.