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+Conservancy's Policies
+======================
+
+These are the policies of the [Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.](https://sfconservancy.org).
+
+License
+-------
+
+To the extent possible, Conservancy disclaims all copyright on the documents
+herein, and provides them under the
+[CC-0 1.0 Universal copyright waiver and fallback license](CC0-1.0.txt).
+Conservancy kindly asks that you remove Conservancy's name and all references
+to contact information of our organization if you reuse these policies for
+your own organizations and projects.
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+The canonical location for this repository is
+[on Gitorious](https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies).  Copies of this
+repository elsewhere, such as Github, are for backup purposes only.  If you
+have contributions, submit them on Gitorious.
+
+These policies are discussed in public with Conservancy's member projects and
+other Conservancy enthusiasts on
+[the polices-discuss mailing list](http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/policies-discuss).
+
+The 'master' branch in this repository denotes the current polices that are
+in-effect for the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.  Proposals are made by
+people in forked versions on Gitorious, and then if the
+[Conservancy staff](https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/) plans to propose
+them to
+[Conservancy's Board of Directors](https://sfconservancy.org/about/board/),
+they are merged into the 'ready-for-board-approval' branch.  Once approved by
+the Board of Directors, Conservancy staff merges the changes into the
+'master' branch.
+