docs: add a word about licensing contributed work

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Vincent Bernat
2024-08-16 18:02:07 +02:00
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@@ -44,3 +44,16 @@ For manual tests, you can use `make docker-dev` to build a Docker container of
Akvorado, then use `docker compose up` to run Docker compose. Beware to not
destroy the volume for GeoIP at each tentative as there is a per-day limit on
the number of times one IP can fetch the GeoIP database.
# Licensing
The code is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. When creating new files, be sure to
add the appropriate SPDX header, like for existing files. Feel free to assign
the copyright to yourself or your organization: we do not do copyright
assignment as GitHub terms and conditions already [include][] this:
> Whenever you add Content to a repository containing notice of a license, you
> license that Content under the same terms, and you agree that you have the
> right to license that Content under those terms.
[include]: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#6-contributions-under-repository-license