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A license check is performed as a part of each build. (Heres Here's one from 22 Jun 2021).  If any dependency reports a license from anything other than the permitted list a build error occurs and the distribution is not generated.

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Just under a quarter of all contributions come from outside ConsenSys Quorum (Protocols, formerly known as PegaSys, was merged with ConsenSys Quorum)

The top committing maintainer from each company over the last year:

• ConsenSys - Sally McFarlaneMacFarlane
• Splunk - Antoine Tolume
• Chainsafe - Edward Mack
• <No Affiliation> - Danno Ferrin

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All releases can be seen in the Besu Github Repo, and future anticipated release dates in the Wiki.

Besu's roadmap is mostly driven by two external concerns: the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance specification and Ethereum Mainnet hard-forks (and to a lesser extent Ethereum Classic, which mostly aligns with Ethereum Mainnet)

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Besu maintains a ReadTheDocs site.  Documentation includes RPC interfaces, server deployment, dApp development, and more general documentation such as architectural structure.

Alignment

The Besu main wiki page lists the main use cases and specific features.

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Hyperledger Besu is fully hosted on Hyperledger Infrastructure: GitHub for source control, Rocket Chat Discord for Chat, Hyperledger email list (although rocket chat Discord is the dominant communication channel), builds and release are run on CircleCI, and repolinter verifying conformance to the common repository structure.

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