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In the future, we might have a single organization for forks. That will allow us to track various metrics about contributions made by GitLab employees.
### If a project does not have a license
GitLab allows contribution to open source licensed projects. If the project to you which you wish to contribute does not have a license:
1. Hold off making any contributions to the project until a license is in place.
1. Open an issue in the project (or contact the maintainers through other documented means).
1. Request the project adds an appropriate license citing an inability to contribute to unlicensed code.
1. Potentially refer to licenses used in other projects in the same group/organization as an easy reference for the maintainer.
1. If an open source license is added, you may then contribute to the project.
## Using open source software
The guidance for using open source software, including details of which licenses are pre-approved for use, is now available in the [Legal & Corporate Affairs handbook](/handbook/legal/product/#using-open-source-software).
