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commit a4f0a2390b9af18e2878671a2e26a89d979e788e Author: Alexander Shaposhnikov <sanch...@reactos.org> AuthorDate: Fri Oct 27 01:29:28 2017 +0300 CONTRIBUTING.md: Add legal notice --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 17465a2063..028fe8bead 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ There are several ways to contribute to the development of ReactOS. The most oft - [How To Contribute?](#how-to-contribute?) - [Where To Start?](#where-to-start?) +**Legal notice:** If you have seen Microsoft Windows source code, your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation. Before contributing, you must affirm that the following is true: +>I hereby swear that I have not used nor seen the source code to any version of the Windows operating system +>nor any Microsoft product that may be related to the proposed project that is under a license incompatible +>with contribution to ReactOS, including but not limited to the leaked Windows 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel. + ## What To Do? ### Fix bugs