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