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+# Collaboration agreement
+
+The aim of the CORSIKA project is to creat a scientific, and collaborative software framework as a fundamental tool for research. The collaborative agreement and licinsing scheme are based on the guidelines layed out by HSF~[https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/licensing.html] and CERN~[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiLqKG00dXdAhUOZFAKHdIwAh4QFjAAegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Findico.cern.ch%2Fcategory%2F4251%2Fattachments%2F101%2F505%2FOSL-2012-01-Open_Source_Licences_at_CERN-Short_version.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1n4S0PQCSeE6wbdfdhKDqF],[http://legal.web.cern.ch/licensing/software], and follow the examples of other big scientific software projects. The license adopted by the CORSIKA project will be the explicit coyleft licencse GPLv3, as copyied in full in the file LICENSE. For legal reasons and the ability to maintin the CORSIKA project efficiently over a very long lifespan of several decades, all contibuters are required to yield their copyright to the CORSIKA project, and it decision making stucture, as defined in this document. Of course all contributors will be co-lists as software authors of the CORSIKA project, and listed indefinitely in the AUTHORS file. The active contributors of the CORSIKA project will 
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+## Definition of a contributor
+
+## Definition of a scientific author
+
+## Accepting new contributors, and authors
+
+## Changing to a different license, for parts or the complete project
+
+## Deciding and planning releases
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+## Prime distributor, and copyright holder 
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