Commit 5b86dce8 authored by Anderson Torres's avatar Anderson Torres
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CONTRIBUTING.md: clarify some directives about `meta` attributes

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@@ -38,11 +38,14 @@ Below is a short excerpt of some points in there:
    The old config generation system used impure shell scripts and could break in specific circumstances (see #1234).

* `meta.description` should:
  * Be short, just one sentence.
  * Be capitalized.
  * Not start with the package name.
  * Not have a period at the end.
    * More generally, it should not refer to the package name.
  * Not end with a period (or any punctuation for that matter).
* `meta.license` must be set and fit the upstream license.
  * If there is no upstream license, `meta.license` should default to `lib.licenses.unfree`.
  * If in doubt, try to contact the upstream developers for clarification.
* `meta.maintainers` must be set.

See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes).