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Add information how to deal with incorporation external code (license, credits) #928

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Describe the enhancement or feature you'd like
The devguide does not contain information what a triager and core dev has to do when adding files or non-trivial portions of code from an external project with non-core dev contributors. There are a couple of things we need to check or do:

  • Is the license compatible with PSFL?
  • Include proper provenance and license information in file header or comment before the code
  • Add license and origin to Docs/license.rst
  • Give credits to original authors
  • Properly document the provenance and license in commit message

Describe alternatives you've considered
We should ask VanL for guidance, too.

Additional context
See python/cpython#95649 for a case that is missing proper license and provenance information.

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