2.1. Copyright and License

You should adapt or copy existing work (with appropriate license as described below) whenever possible rather than writing completely new text.

When you contribute your original writing to this project, you agree that it will be licensed under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license. To recognize your contribution and acknowledge your copyright, provide your name on the issue for the task you are submitting, and the project managers will add it to the attributions information for the User Guide. You may also add the name of an organization or company that sponsored your work. You may turn both your name and your organization/company name into links; the suggested link for your name would be your Drupal.org user profile, but you may use a different URL if you prefer.

Here are samples:

Written by https://www.drupal.org/u/marysmith[Mary Smith].

Written by https://www.drupal.org/u/marysmith[Mary Smith] of
https://www.example.com[ABC Company].

You are encouraged to include (or adapt) work that is licensed under either the same license as this project, or compatible licenses. If you do so, you must write up an attribution statement and add it to the issue for the task you are working on. The statement must include:

Here is a sample:

Adapted by https://www.drupal.org/u/marysmith[Mary Smith] from
https://www.drupal.org/node/14307["Documentation copyright and licensing"],
copyright 2000-2025 by the individual contributors to the
https://www.drupal.org/documentation[Drupal Community Documentation]

If you are editing work that has already been added to the guide, taking up a task that was started and then dropped by another contributor, or translating a topic, you’ll need to add your name to the existing attribution. For instance:

Written and edited by https://www.drupal.org/u/marysmith[Mary Smith] and
https://www.drupal.org/u/joejones[Joe Jones]. Translated into Spanish by
https://www.drupal.org/u/davidpaz[David Paz].

Attributions

Written/edited by Jennifer Hodgdon and Joe Shindelar.