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Refer to the CNCF Recommendations for Attribution Notices (#2775)
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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. The [CNCF Allowlist License Policy](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md#cncf-allowlist-license-policy)
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describes the requirements for including third-party code in CNCF codebases,
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along with a list of approved compatible licenses.
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Apache-2.0 License.
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If you directly incorporate or vendor Apache-2.0 license compatible third-party code, follow
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the [CNCF Recommendations for Attribution Notices](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/recommendations-for-attribution.md).
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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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The [CNCF Allowlist License Policy](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/allowed-third-party-license-policy.md#cncf-allowlist-license-policy)
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describes the requirements for depending on third-party code in CNCF codebases,
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along with a list of approved compatible licenses.
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If the contributed code is not third-party code and you are the author we
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strongly encourage to avoid including your name in the notice and use the

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