Clarification on Licensing and Contribution Guidelines for Bug Fix

[nohat]

There are deprecation warnings in the Home Assistant logs caused by Dwains Lovelace Dashboard since the 2025.1 version, as noted in Issue #847. Additional details about the issue have been provided in this comment.

To address this, clarification on the project’s licensing and contribution process would help ensure that fixes are submitted in alignment with the project’s guidelines. The project is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 with additional custom terms (see README, lines 63–64). This raises some questions about the process for making contributions, as creating pull requests often involves committing changes to public forks on GitHub, which may intersect with the license’s restrictions (see discussion).

The following questions aim to clarify the process for contributors:

1. Does the current licensing model permit contributions such as bug fixes or compatibility updates?
2. What guidelines should contributors follow when preparing pull requests?
3. Are there specific provisions for addressing compatibility issues with newer Home Assistant versions?

Providing guidance on these points would help ensure that contributors can participate effectively while respecting the project’s licensing terms.

[drueppela]

@nohat : I got also stuck.

#853

[dwainscheeren]

Thank you for asking this, regarding bug fixes you got my permission to fix things locally, make a PR to here to fix it so I can merge it afterwards