1 | Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end).
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3 | ### Before you contribute
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4 | Before we can use your code, you must sign the
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5 | [Google Individual Contributor License Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual?csw=1)
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6 | (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the
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7 | copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our
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8 | codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also
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9 | need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you
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10 | know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign
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11 | the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has
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12 | approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase.
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13 | Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with
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14 | us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and
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15 | possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid
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16 | frustration later on.
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18 | ### Code reviews
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19 | All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We
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20 | use Github pull requests for this purpose.
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22 | ### The small print
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23 | Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than
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24 | the one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement.
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