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Refer to CNCF allowlist for 3rd-party licenses approved for inclusion in CNCF repos
This came up in open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#5305 Refs: open-telemetry#2504
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guides/contributor/processes.md

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Any contributed third-party code must originally be Apache 2.0-Licensed or must
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carry a permissive software license that is compatible when combining with
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Apache 2.0 License. At this moment, BSD and MIT are the only
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[OSI-approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) known to be compatible.
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Apache 2.0 License. The CNCF maintains a list of licenses approved for inclusion
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in a CNCF codebase [here](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md#approved-licenses-for-allowlist).
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If you make substantial changes to the third-party code, _prepend_ the contributed
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third party file with OpenTelemetry's copyright notice.

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