From dffd1c8469364d3aa7ded55f501c41d01c5a2b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chenxing <chason.chan@foxmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:07:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Address copyright and license header

Context:

- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/legal-discuss/2015-March/date.html
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2014-January/subject.html#3644

Change-Id: I115d68b578c2f6c3bc846f39bdeceb8a3af1cd40
Closes-Bug: #1709690
Co-Authored-By: Alexandra Settle <asettle@suse.com>
---
 .../general-writing-guidelines.rst            | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/writing-style/general-writing-guidelines.rst b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/writing-style/general-writing-guidelines.rst
index 18d5994c98..182708cafd 100644
--- a/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/writing-style/general-writing-guidelines.rst
+++ b/doc/doc-contrib-guide/source/writing-style/general-writing-guidelines.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,25 @@ General writing guidelines
 Follow these guidelines to ensure readability and consistency of the
 OpenStack documentation.
 
+Copyright and licensing
+-----------------------
+
+OpenStack requires contributions to be released under the
+Apache 2.0 license, and have licensing information in the header when
+uploaded to the public code repository. This submission method makes
+all contributions immediately available to all community members
+under the Apache 2.0 license. See
+`Licensing requirements <https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/licensing.html>`_
+for more information.
+
+Except where otherwise noted, documents are licensed under Creative Commons
+Attribution 3.0 License. Individual documentation files do not require a
+copyright licensing notice.
+
+For information on trademarking, see the
+`OpenStack® Trademark Policy <https://www.openstack.org/brand/openstack-trademark-policy>`_
+for more information.
+
 Use standard English
 --------------------