How to apply a license

NocoDB doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). We require Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as an additional safeguard for the NocoDB 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.

Modifying existing file

If you modify an existing file, please keep the existing license header as it is and just add your copyright notice and author:

@author <your name> <your email address>

Creating new file

/**
 * @copyright Copyright (c) <year>, <your name> (<your email address>)
 *
 * @author <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/>.
 *
 */

How to sign your work

First configure your Git username/email :

Usually email will be already configured with your github.

git config --global user.name "FirstName LastName"
git config --global user.email "email@provider.com"

Refer here for additional details

git add .
git commit -s -m "commit message"

Please note : Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions).

Once pushed - you should see the commit have the following template in github

  Signed-off-by: FirstName Initials/Lastname <email@provider.com>

How to sign your previous work

In case you forget to sign your work, you can do the following:

# sign the last N commits - replace N before executing the command
git rebase HEAD~N --signoff
git push -f

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