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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,