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1Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at
2the end).
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4### Before you contribute
5
6Before we can use your code, you must sign the [Google Individual Contributor
7License
8Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual?csw=1)
9(CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the
10copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our
11codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also
12need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you
13know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign
14the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has
15approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase.
16Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with
17us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and
18possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid
19frustration later on.
20
21### Code reviews
22
23All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We
24use GitHub pull requests for this purpose.
25
26### The small print
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28Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the
29one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement.
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