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Add links to attribution recommendations
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Signed-off-by: Steve Winslow <[email protected]>
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have expressly permitted you to do so. This includes third parties' notices in
pre-existing code.

For additional details regarding attribution notices for third party code used
in CNCF projects, see the [CNCF attribution recommendations] document.

## Why not list every copyright holder?

There are several reasons why CNCF doesn't require or recommend trying to list
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notices.
- The specific individual or legal entity that owns the copyright might not be
known to the contributor; it could be you, your employer, or some other entity.

[CNCF attribution recommendations]: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/recommendations-for-attribution.md
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ There are several reasons to include notices on a file-by-file basis, rather tha

There is no one mandatory way in which license notices need to be provided. Following are some options for ways to provide notices in various use cases.

For additional details regarding attribution notices for third party code used
in CNCF projects, see the [CNCF attribution recommendations] document.

### Original content for CNCF projects

Under the [CNCF charter], section 11, source code is to be made available under the Apache License, version 2.0 (Apache-2.0) and documentation is to be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0).
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The [REUSE Software Initiative](https://reuse.software/spec/) also contains recommendations for placing license texts within a `/LICENSES/` directory.

[CNCF Charter]: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/charter.md
[CNCF attribution recommendations]: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/recommendations-for-attribution.md

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