From fbef68f89bf85262ef5de0b1c372b531a5c214ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Balter Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:43:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] make it clear that license should be the spdx id --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index a40de79..1447c15 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -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 `_licensees/[spdx-id].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. From d5c23e2871eabc577bef3a0c2cbdfeffb13c3c44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Linksvayer Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:53:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] spel & mention lowercase spdx id w/example --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 1447c15..be2b44c 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -22,7 +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 `_licensees/[spdx-id].txt` +* 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.