diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ba210dee --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# JSON-LD Working Group + +Contributions to this repository are intended to become part of Recommendation-track documents governed by the +[W3C Patent Policy](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/) and +[Software and Document License](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software). To make substantive contributions to specifications, you must either participate +in the relevant W3C Working Group or make a non-member patent licensing commitment. + +If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all +contributors in the pull request comment. + +To add a contributor (other than yourself, that's automatic), mark them one per line as follows: + +``` ++@github_username +``` + +If you added a contributor by mistake, you can remove them in a comment with: + +``` +-@github_username +``` + +If you are making a pull request on behalf of someone else but you had no part in designing the +feature, you can remove yourself with the above syntax.