From 4b6740204d0768279d36544a8141f2867fd98359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Chow <achow101@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:58:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Mandatory copyright agreement

All contributions to the repository will agree to use the MIT license
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 62ebc7917..c8cb666b4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -198,3 +198,11 @@ Release Policy
 --------------
 
 The project leader is the release manager for each Bitcoin Core release.
+
+Copyright
+---------
+
+By contributing to this repository, you agree to license your work under the 
+MIT license unless specified otherwise in `contrib/debian/copyright` or at 
+the top of the file itself. Any work contributed where you are not the original 
+author must contain its license header with the original author(s) and source.