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plugins/woocommerce-admin/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to WooCommerce Admin
+
+Hi! Thank you for your interest in contributing to WooCommerce Admin. We appreciate it.
+
+There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, feature suggestions, and fixing bugs.
+
+## Reporting Bugs, Asking Questions, Sending Suggestions
+
+Open [a GitHub issue](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/issues/), that's all. If you want to prefix the title with a “Question:”, “Bug:”, or the general area of the application, that would be helpful but is no means mandatory. If you have write access, add the appropriate labels.
+
+If you're filing a bug, specific steps to reproduce are helpful. Please include what you expected to see and what happened instead.
+
+## We're Here To Help
+
+We encourage you to ask for help. We want your first experience with WooCommerce Admin to be a good one, so don't be shy. If you're wondering why something is the way it is, or how a decision was made, you can tag issues with [Type] Question or prefix them with “Question:”
+
+## License
+
+WooCommerce Admin is licensed under [GNU General Public License v2 (or later)](/LICENSE.md).
+
+All materials contributed should be compatible with the GPLv2. This means that if you own the material, you agree to license it under the GPLv2 license. If you are contributing code that is not your own, such as adding a component from another Open Source project, or adding an `npm` package, you need to make sure you follow these steps:
+
+1. Check that the code has a license. If you can't find one, you can try to contact the original author and get permission to use, or ask them to release under a compatible Open Source license.
+2. Check the license is compatible with [GPLv2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses), note that the Apache 2.0 license is *not* compatible.
+3. Add the code source URL (e.g. a GitHub URL), the files where it's used in the WooCommerce Services and the full license terms to [`CREDITS.md`](/CREDITS.md)
+4. Add attribution to the code, if applicable. This line should include the copyright notice of the source, and a reference to the license contained in [`CREDITS.md`](/CREDITS.md)

plugins/woocommerce-admin/CREDITS.md

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+Credits
+=======
+
+This project makes use of Open Source components. Below is a list of these components included in this project's source code, and their license information. This project also uses js packages released by NPM, see [package.json](/package.json). Source code and license information for each of these packages is available at https://npmjs.org. Many thanks to all of the original authors!
+
+### https://github.com/facebook/react
+
+```text
+BSD License
+
+For React software
+
+Copyright (c) 2013-2015, Facebook, Inc.
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
+are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+ * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+ * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+ * Neither the name Facebook nor the names of its contributors may be used to
+   endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
+   prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
+ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
+ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
+(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
+ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
+SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE
+```
+
+### https://github.com/rackt/react-redux
+```text
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2015-present Dan Abramov
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

plugins/woocommerce-admin/README.md

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 ## Privacy
 
 If you have enabled WooCommerce usage tracking ( option `woocommerce_allow_tracking` ) then, in addition to the tracking described in https://woocommerce.com/usage-tracking/, this plugin also sends information about the actions that site administrators perform to Automattic - see https://automattic.com/privacy/#information-we-collect-automatically for more information.
+
+## Contributing
+
+There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, feature suggestions and fixing bugs. For full details, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)