https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4f0a2390b9af18e28786…
commit a4f0a2390b9af18e2878671a2e26a89d979e788e
Author: Alexander Shaposhnikov <sanchaez(a)reactos.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Oct 27 01:29:28 2017 +0300
CONTRIBUTING.md: Add legal notice
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@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ There are several ways to contribute to the development of ReactOS. The most oft
- [How To Contribute?](#how-to-contribute?)
- [Where To Start?](#where-to-start?)
+**Legal notice:** If you have seen Microsoft Windows source code, your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation. Before contributing, you must affirm that the following is true:
+>I hereby swear that I have not used nor seen the source code to any version of the Windows operating system
+>nor any Microsoft product that may be related to the proposed project that is under a license incompatible
+>with contribution to ReactOS, including but not limited to the leaked Windows 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel.
+
## What To Do?
### Fix bugs