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Updated policy on contributed plugins

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@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
</section>
<section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
<section id="Contributedplugins"><title>Contributed plugins</title>
<para>Plugins that have been contributed to the project and
distributed with the Nagios Plugin files are held in the contrib/ directory and are not installed
by default. These plugins are not officially supported by the team.
The current policy is that these plugins should be owned and maintained by the original
contributor, preferably hosted on <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
</para>
<para>If patches or bugs are raised to an contributed plugin, we will start communications with the
original contributor, but seek to remove the plugin from our distribution.
</para>
<para>The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for.
</para>
</section>
<section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
<para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to
the official 3rd party plugin repository,
<ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Include copyright and license information in all files</para>
<para>Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely
granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version,