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Make it clear in the CONTRIBUTING instructions that the license file name should be the SPDX ID
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Mike Linksvayer 2016-01-28 14:15:12 -08:00
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@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present all of
If your proposed license meets the above criteria, here's a few other things to keep in mind as you propose the license's addition:
* Licenses live in the `/_licenses` folder.
* The license files should be in the format of `_licenses/[lowercased-spdx-id].txt` (e.g., `_licenses/mit.txt`)
* Each license has both [required and optional metadata](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#license-metadata) that should be included.
* The text of the license should be wrapped to a 78 character width.
* The body of the file should be the text of the license in plain text.