From e5cddeba778faead5be5512968c8507a25983f62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joshua stein <jcs@jcs.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:52:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] update readme/contributing to explain about non-lobste.rs use

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 10 +++++++++-
 README.md       | 16 +++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 779bb76..cf22a7f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
+####Licensing
+
 The `lobsters` codebase is under a [3-clause BSD
 license](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE).  All code
 submitted must be licensed under these or more-permissive terms (2-clause BSD,
 MIT, ISC, etc.).
 
-### Making Changes
+####Before Making Changes
+
+While this project's license allows for modification and use to run your own
+website, this source code repository is for the code running the website at
+[lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
 
 Not all changes or new features submitted will be accepted.  Please discuss
 your proposed changes on [/t/meta](https://lobste.rs/t/meta) or as a
 [Github issue](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/issues) before working on them
 to avoid wasted efforts.
 
+###Making Changes
+
 * Fork [jcs/lobsters](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters) on Github.
 
 * (Optional) Create a branch to house your changes.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fdc572c..b20687c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ This is the source code to the site operating at
 SQL (MySQL in production) backend for the database and Sphinx for the search
 engine.
 
+While you are free to fork this code and modify it (according to the [license](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE))
+to run your own link aggregation website, this source code repository and bug
+tracker are only for the site operating at [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
+Please do not use the bug tracker for support related to operating your own
+site unless you are contributing code that will also benefit [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
+
+####Contributing bugfixes and new features
+
+Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+file.
+
 ####Initial setup
 
 * Install Ruby 1.9.3.
@@ -71,8 +82,3 @@ You should define this in `/etc/hosts` (or through DNS) to point to
 `http://lobsters.localhost:3000` with your `test` user:
 
           lobsters$ rails server
-
-####Contributing bugfixes and new features
-
-Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
-file.