Introduction

The contributor is the first role defined in the JOS Public License. Who is a contributor?

A contributor is anyone who puts their work under the JOS Public License.

• An individual author, working alone, may become a contributor by putting their own work under the JOS Public License. An author contributes a copy of their work to the community so that others may be able to use it, learn from it, and improve upon it.

• A team, working together on a JOS project, should contribute their work consistently under the JOS Public License. A team contributes opinions, ideas, teaching, mentoring, and other intangible things to the community so that others may be able to grow in their skills and experience.

• A commercial or non-profit organization or governmental agency may become a contributor by putting their existing products under the JOS Public License.

About contributions

Although we might wish we could accept all kinds of contributions, there are a few things required by contributors.

• A contributor must own something in order to contribute it to the project. You cannot contribute something owned by someone else.

Non-contributor

Most people using software issued under the JOS Public License are not contributors. They may be end-users or distributors.

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