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| +Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at |
| +the end). |
| + |
| +### Before you contribute |
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Bob Nystrom
2015/10/08 16:48:33
Markdown nit: can you add a blank line after this?
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen
2015/10/08 17:20:54
Sure. Again, taken verbatim from template.
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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 |
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floitsch
2015/10/13 12:47:50
I was not aware of this. Where does this come from
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| +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. |
| + |
| +### Code reviews |
| +All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. |
| + |
| +### File headers |
| +All files in the project must start with the following header. |
| + |
| + // Copyright (c) 2015, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file |
| + // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a |
| + // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file. |
| + |
| +### The small print |
| +Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the |
| +one above, the |
| +[Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate). |