| 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]
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| 6 | (https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual)
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| 7 | (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the
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| 8 | copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our
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| 9 | codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also
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| 10 | need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you
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| 11 | know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign
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| 12 | the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has
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| 13 | approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase.
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| 14 | Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with
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| 15 | us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and
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| 16 | possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid
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| 17 | frustration later on.
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| 19 | ### Code reviews
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| 20 | All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We
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| 21 | use Github pull requests for this purpose.
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| 23 | ### The small print
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| 24 | Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than
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| 25 | the one above, the
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| 26 | [Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement]
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| 27 | (https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate).
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