Licensing guidelines

This and affiliated projects are licensed under GPLv3 or APGLv3, if not stated otherwise.

Licensing projects

Copy the license from projectmanagement or the official standalone (with the filename LICENSE) into the root of your project.

The GPL copyright notice

According to the GPLv3 guidelines for adding the license to a new program a license note should be added at the beginning of each source file.

/*
 * Copyright (C) <year> StApps
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation, version 3.
 *
 * 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 General Public License for
 * more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
 * this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

New Files

The <year> should be inserted with the current year. E.g.:

 * Copyright (C) 2019 StApps

Updating Files

If the file is updated in a new year after its creation, the <year> should be appended as a comma seperated list with spaces in between. E.g.:

 * Copyright (C) 2018, 2019, 2021 StApps

Further resources

Coding style

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