The KDE Project designation carries with it certain commitments:
- Respect the KDE Code of Conduct
- Support the KDE Vision and KDE Mission
- There is no mandatory Contributor License Agreement
- Technical requirements
- The project stays true to established practices common to similar KDE projects
- All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available to and writable by all KDE contributor accounts
- Online services associated with the project are either hosted on KDE infrastructure or have an action plan that ensures continuity which is approved by the KDE system administration team
- Copyrights, trademarks and patents
- KDE licensing policy is respected
- KDE branding guidelines are respected
- If the authors of the software abandon it or disappear, they agree to transfer the trademark to the next maintainer
- If the code is covered by patents registered by the project itself, those patents must be licensed freely
