The Aerospace Corporation Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Aerospace is interesting in working with the free and open-source software (FOSS) community. Find out how in the information below.

The Aerospace Corporation is pleased to offer a number of our projects to the FOSS community.

You can find our public facing projects on our GitHub organization page.

Making Contributions

Do you have code you would like to contribute to an Aerospace project? We are excited to work with you. We are able to accept small changes immediately and require a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for larger changesets. Generally documentation and other minor changes less than 10 lines do not require a CLA. The Aerospace Corporation CLA is based on the well-known Harmony Agreements CLA created by Canonical, and protects the rights of The Aerospace Corporation, our customers, and you as the contributor. You can find our CLA here. Please complete the CLA and send us the executed copy. Once a CLA is on file we can accept pull requests on GitHub or GitLab. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at oss@aero.org.

Licensing

The Aerospace Corporation supports Free & Open Source Software and we publish our work with GPL-compatible licenses. If the license attached to the project is not suitable for your needs, our projects are also available under an alternative license. An alternative license can allow you to create proprietary applications around Aerospace products without being required to meet the obligations of the GPL. To inquire about an alternative license, please get in touch with us at oss@aero.org.

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