Add Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

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Please read the [Developer Manuals][devmanual] to learn how to create your first application or how to test the Nextcloud code with PHPUnit. Please read the [Developer Manuals][devmanual] to learn how to create your first application or how to test the Nextcloud code with PHPUnit.
### Tests
In order to constantly increase the quality of our software we can no longer accept pull request which submit un-tested code. In order to constantly increase the quality of our software we can no longer accept pull request which submit un-tested code.
It is a must have that changed and added code segments are unit tested. It is a must have that changed and added code segments are unit tested.
In some areas unit testing is hard (aka almost impossible) as of today - in these areas refactoring WHILE fixing a bug is encouraged to enable unit testing. In some areas unit testing is hard (aka almost impossible) as of today - in these areas refactoring WHILE fixing a bug is encouraged to enable unit testing.
### Sign your work
We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as a additional safeguard
for the Nextcloud project. This is a well established and widely used
mechanism to assure contributors have confirmed their right to license
their contribution under the project's license.
Please read [contribute/developer-certificate-of-origin][dcofile].
If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message:
````
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
````
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions).
If you set your `user.name` and `user.email` git configs, you can sign your
commit automatically with `git commit -s`.
### Apply a license
In case you are not sure how to add or update the license header correctly please have a look at [contribute/HowToApplyALicense.md][applyalicense]
[devmanual]: https://docs.nextcloud.org/server/10/developer_manual/ [devmanual]: https://docs.nextcloud.org/server/10/developer_manual/
[dcofile]: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/contribute/developer-certificate-of-origin
[applyalicense]: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/contribute/HowToApplyALicense.md
## Translations ## Translations
Please submit translations via [Transifex][transifex]. Please submit translations via [Transifex][transifex].

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# How to apply a license
Originally Nextcloud was licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 only. From
June, 16 2016 on we switched to "GNU AGPLv3 or any later version" for
better long-term maintainability and to make it more secure from a
legal point of view.
Additionally Nextcloud doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License
Agreement). The copyright belongs to all the individual
contributors.
If you modify an existing file, please keep the existing license header as
it is and just add your copyright notice:
````
@copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)
````
If you create a new file please use this license header:
````
/**
* @copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)
*
* @license GNU AGPL version 3 or any later version
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
* License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
*/
````
Additionally we require a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), look
at [CONTRIBUTING.md][contributing] to learn more how to sign your commits.
[contributing]: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-your-work

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Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.