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* Improve format and clarity of the docs [ci skip] While this change produces a lot of git noise by enacting what seems like an arbitrary linewrap on most of the files in the documentation it will result in better version control and tracking of the changes in the documentation. For example, as it currently stands, if one was to make a PR to move a comma in a sentence because each paragraph in most of the files is on a single line, that small change would look in the git history like the author had modified the entire paragraph. In reality, this author just moved a comma. This change also includes a significant number of modifications to the more article-esque docs. Many of these docs were written in a sort of stream-of-conciousness and aren't as easy to read as they could be. Hopefully this is the first of several readability changes. If we could get these docs to a more accessible reading level, we would probably see an increase in contributions. :) * Delegate markdown wrapping to Prettier * Add linewrapping explanation in the docs [ci skip]
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title: Licensing
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# Licensing
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
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Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
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later version. Please see the
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[LICENSE](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/blob/master/LICENSE.md) file
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in our repository for the full text.
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Like many open source projects, we require that contributors provide us with a
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Contributor License Agreement (CLA). By submitting code to the DEV project, you
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are granting us a right to use that code under the terms of the CLA.
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Our version of the CLA was adapted from the Microsoft Contributor License
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Agreement, which they generously made available to the public domain under
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
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## Where can I learn more about the AGPL-3 license?
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Please refer to the official “[Why the Affero
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GPL](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html)” and the [FAQ
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page](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html) on
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[GNU.org](https://www.gnu.org) for full details regarding this license.
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## Why does DEV have a CLA?
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The Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is a legal document in which you state
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that you are entitled to contribute your code to the DEV codebase, and are
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willing to have it used in distributions and derivative work.
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The CLA helps provide confidence to future users that they will be allowed to
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use the DEV codebase without fear that a contributor will try to withdraw
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permissions at a later date.
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## Am I giving away the copyright of my contributions?
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No. You are granting DEV a license to use and distribute your contribution
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without further restriction, not assigning the copyright.
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## What if I have other questions?
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Please check out our main repository or send an email to
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[yo@dev.to](mailto:yo@dev.to).
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