
## Contributing Code

Reaper is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See `NOTICE.md` for more information on the license.

All contributions (code, documentation, or anything else) to Reaper imply a copyright grant to `The Last Pickle Ltd`.

Larger contributions will require an explicit contributor license agreement.

# Contributing to Reaper

If you would like to contribute code you can do so through GitHub by forking the repository and sending a pull request (on a branch other than `master`).

When submitting code, please abide by the code style, most of which is enforced by [CheckStyle](https://github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-reaper/blob/master/src/server/checkstyle.xml).

## License

By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the terms of the APLv2: https://github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-reaper/blob/master/LICENSE

All files are released with the Apache 2.0 license.
If you are adding a new file it should have a header like below. 

```
/**
 * Copyright 2018-2018 The Last Pickle Ltd
 *
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
 */
 ```

Remove mention of `copyright grant` or any implied notion of a CLA
Remove mention of `copyright grant` or any implied notion of a CLA

Copyright assignment was not the intention with the standardising the license headers through the project.
As @danielkza describes, it's option (b) in [this comment](https://github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-reaper/issues/561#issuecomment-423852079) that is the project's goal.