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You are encouraged, but not obligated, to share your contributions with the DSpace community. If you choose to do so, you will need to sign over copyright and intellectual property rights of your code to the DSpace FoundationDuraSpace, to be distributed via the BSD license. The DSpace Foundation DuraSpace is a 501c(3) non-profit established to be the legal guardian of the code and to remain mission centric on providing free and open source software for management and archiving of digital works. Also, your code cannot rely on any non-BSD compatibly licensed code.

The BSD license means there is no advantage to be gained by your university (or anyone) retaining copyright, and that by having different copyright holders of different sections of the code, we will be rendered inflexible regarding copyright and licensing in the future, we do ask that you transfer copyright of your modifications to DSpace FoundationDuraSpace.

You will receive full acknowledgment for contributing the code; so I do encourage you to incorporate your enhancements to DSpace's functionality for everyone to benefit. You will benefit too since you will neither have to re-incorporate the changes with new versions of DSpace, nor maintain this code solely yourself!