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| @@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para> | |||
| 809 | Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para> | 809 | Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para> |
| 810 | </section> | 810 | </section> |
| 811 | 811 | ||
| 812 | <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title> | ||
| 813 | 812 | ||
| 813 | <section id="Contributedplugins"><title>Contributed plugins</title> | ||
| 814 | <para>Plugins that have been contributed to the project and | ||
| 815 | distributed with the Nagios Plugin files are held in the contrib/ directory and are not installed | ||
| 816 | by default. These plugins are not officially supported by the team. | ||
| 817 | The current policy is that these plugins should be owned and maintained by the original | ||
| 818 | contributor, preferably hosted on <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>. | ||
| 819 | </para> | ||
| 820 | <para>If patches or bugs are raised to an contributed plugin, we will start communications with the | ||
| 821 | original contributor, but seek to remove the plugin from our distribution. | ||
| 822 | </para> | ||
| 823 | <para>The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for. | ||
| 824 | </para> | ||
| 825 | </section> | ||
| 826 | |||
| 827 | <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title> | ||
| 814 | <para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to | 828 | <para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to |
| 815 | the official 3rd party plugin repository, | 829 | the official 3rd party plugin repository, |
| 816 | <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>. | 830 | <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>. |
| @@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para> | |||
| 823 | 837 | ||
| 824 | <orderedlist> | 838 | <orderedlist> |
| 825 | <listitem> | 839 | <listitem> |
| 826 | <para>Include copyright and license information in all files</para> | 840 | <para>Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely |
| 841 | granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team</para> | ||
| 827 | </listitem> | 842 | </listitem> |
| 828 | <listitem> | 843 | <listitem> |
| 829 | <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version, | 844 | <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version, |