| This plugin allows to configure required copyright reviews. |
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| The plugin looks for text patterns that might be license terms or copyright |
| ownership declarations in newly uploaded revisions. It broadly groups findings |
| into first-party, third-party, forbidden or unknown. |
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| The plugin requires special review when third-party code appears outside of |
| areas designated for third-party code, or when forbidden or unknown licenses |
| appear anywhere. |
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| Note: The plugin does not make definitive assertions about the licenses or |
| owners it finds. It leaves that up to a copyright-knowledgeable human reviewer. |
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| It will have false-positives--especially in the unknown category. It may also |
| have false negatives. |
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| ## First-party |
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| Licensed or owned by the owner of the gerrit repository. |
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| e.g. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) uses the Apache 2.0 License and |
| accepts any contributions released under that license as first-party. |
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| ## Third-party |
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| Licensed or owned by someone other than the user or the owner of the gerrit |
| repository, but released under license terms compatible with the first-party |
| license and accepted by the owners of the repository. |
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| e.g. AOSP accepts a handful of legacy open-source licenses like MIT or BSD. |
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| ## Forbidden |
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| Licensed under terms incompatible with the first-party license or considered |
| onerous by the owner of the host. |
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| e.g. AOSP cannot accept restrictions prohibiting "commercial use" because |
| vendors generally sell Android devices for profit. |
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| ## Unknown |
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| In addition to common copyright and license patterns, the scanner searches for |
| a set of words and patterns that often appear in or near copyright/license |
| declarations, but do not often appear elsewhere in source code. |
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| These apparent license terms do not match any of the known licenses. Because |
| such licenses might contain any number of incompatible or onerous terms, they |
| are treated the same as forbidden. i.e. always require review. |
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| Unrecognized authors or owners are considered third-party rather than unknown. |
