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+# Contributing to Eclipse UPM
+
+Thanks for your interest in this project.
+
+## Project description
+
+The Eclipse UPM repository provides software drivers for a wide variety of
+commonly used sensors and actuators. These software drivers interact with the
+underlying hardware platform (or microcontroller), as well as with the attached
+sensors, through calls to Eclipse MRAA APIs.
+
+* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.upm
+
+## Developer resources
+
+Information regarding source code management, builds, coding standards, and
+more.
+
+* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.upm/developer
+
+The project maintains the following source code repositories
+
+
+## Eclipse Contributor Agreement
+
+Before your contribution can be accepted by the project team contributors must
+electronically sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA).
+
+* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php
+
+Commits that are provided by non-committers must have a Signed-off-by field in
+the footer indicating that the author is aware of the terms by which the
+contribution has been provided to the project. The non-committer must
+additionally have an Eclipse Foundation account and must have a signed Eclipse
+Contributor Agreement (ECA) on file.
+
+For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
+https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit
+
+## Contact
+
+Contact the project developers via the project's "dev" list.
+
+* 
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 Contributing a module                         {#contributions}
 =====================
 
-Here are the rules of contribution:
-- Your new module must have an example that builds against your UPM library.
-- Each commit must have a sign-off line by everyone who authored or reviewed
-  them.
-- Commits must be named `<file/module>: Some decent description`.
-- You must license your module under a FOSS license. The recommended license
-  is MIT but any permissive license is fine. Please consider that people using
-  UPM may want to write proprietary programs with your sensors so we like to
-  avoid GPL. If your license is not MIT please include a LICENSE file in
-  src/mymodule/.
+In order to contribute to the project:
 - The top of each source file must contain a comment block containing the
   license information.
-- Please test your module builds before contributing and make sure it works on
-  the latest version of libmraa. If you tested on a specific board/platform
-  please tell us what this was in your PR.
-- Try not to break master. In any commit.
+- Commits must be named `<file/module>: Some decent description`.
+- Each commit must have a sign-off line by everyone who authored or reviewed
+  them.
+- Your new module must have an example that builds against your UPM library.
 - Attempt to have some decent API documentation as described in the the @ref
   documentation [guide](documentation.md).
 
 Including the MIT license
 =========================
 Choosing the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) is preferred for
-the UPM repository.  Below is the comment block needed at the top each source
+the UPM repository. Below is the comment block needed at the top each source
 file:
 
         /*
-         * The MIT License (MIT)
-         *
-         * Author: <your full name> 
+         * Author: <your full name>
          * Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holder>
          *
-         * Author: <contributing author full name - if applicable> 
+         * Author: <contributing author full name - if applicable>
          * Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holder>
          *
-         * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
-         * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
-         * the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
-         * use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
-         * the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
-         * subject to the following conditions:
+         * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+         * terms of the MIT License which is available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
          *
-         * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-         * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-         *
-         * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-         * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
-         * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
-         * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
-         * IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
-         * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+         * SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
          */
 
-
 Eclipse Contributor Agreement
 ============