Updated policy on contributed plugins

git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@1573 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index ea4508b..15920af 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
         Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
         </section>
 
-        <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
 
+        <section id="Contributedplugins"><title>Contributed plugins</title>
+        <para>Plugins that have been contributed to the project and 
+        distributed with the Nagios Plugin files are held in the contrib/ directory and are not installed
+        by default. These plugins are not officially supported by the team. 
+        The current policy is that these plugins should be owned and maintained by the original 
+        contributor, preferably hosted on <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
+        </para>
+        <para>If patches or bugs are raised to an contributed plugin, we will start communications with the
+        original contributor, but seek to remove the plugin from our distribution.
+        </para>
+        <para>The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for.
+        </para>
+        </section>
+
+        <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
         <para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to
         the official 3rd party plugin repository, 
         <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
@@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
 
       <orderedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Include copyright and license information in all files</para>
+          <para>Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely
+                granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version,