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    <title>Policy</title>

    <para>The CentOS Artwork Repository is a collaborative tool that

    anyone can have access to. However, changing that tool in any form

    is something that should be requested in the 

    url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">CentOS Developers mailing

    list</ulink>.  Generally, people download working copies from

    CentOS Artwork Repository, study the repository organization, make

    some changes in their working copies, make some tests to verify

    such changes do work the way expected and finally request access

    to commit them up to the CentOS Artwork Repository (i.e., the

    source repository) for others to benefit from them.</para>

    <para>Once you've received access to commit your changes, there is

    no need for you to request permission again to commit other

    changes from your working copy to CentOS Artwork Repository as

    long as you behave as a <emphasis>good cooperating

    citizen</emphasis>. Otherwise, your rights to commit changes might

    be temporarly revoked or completly banished.</para>

    <para>As a good cooperating citizen one understand of a person who

    respects the work already done by others and share ideas with

    authors before changing relevant parts of their work, specially in

    situations when the access required to realize the changes has

    been granted already.  Of course, there is a time when

    conversation has taken place, the paths has been traced and

    changing the work is so obvious that there is no need for you to

    talk about it; that's because you already did, you already built

    the trust to keep going. Anyway, the mailing list mentioned above

    is available for sharing ideas in a way that good relationship

    between community citizens could be constantly balanced.</para>

    <para>The relationship between community citizens is monitored by

    repository administrators. Repository administrators are

    responsible of granting everything goes the way it needs to go in

    order for the CentOS Artwork Repository to accomplish its mission

    which is: to provide a colaborative tool for The CentOS Community

    where The CentOS Project Corporate Identity is built and

    maintained by The CentOS Community itself.</para>

    <para>It is also important to remember that all source files

    inside CentOS Artwork Repository should comply the terms of 

    linkend="licenses-gpl-chapter" /> in order for them to remain

    inside the repository.</para>

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