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