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# How to Contribute
We love Pull Requests! Your contributions help make ChooseALicense.com great.
## Getting Started
So you want to contribute to ChooseALicense. Great! We welcome any help we can
get. But first, please make sure you understand what
[this site is all about ](http://choosealicense.com/about ).
It’
If you understand the goals of this site and still want to suggest a change,
please:
* Make sure you have a [GitHub account ](https://github.com/signup/free )
* Submit a ticket for your issue, assuming one does not already exist.
* Clearly describe the issue including steps to reproduce when it is a bug.
* Make sure you fill in the earliest version that you know has the issue.
## Making Changes
The easiest way to make a change is to simply edit a file from your browser.
When you click the edit button, it will fork the repository under your account.
Note what issue/issues your patch fixes in the commit message.
For example, to [change this file ](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ),
find it in the GitHub repository. Then click the `Edit` button. Make your
changes, type in a commit message, and click the `Propose File Change` button.
That’
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For more advanced changes, check out [the bootstrap instructions ](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#run-it-on-your-machine ) in the [project's readme ](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/master/README.md ).
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## Testing
[HTML::Proofer ](https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-proofer ) is set up to validate all links within the project. You can run this locally to ensure that your changes are valid:
```shell
bundle install
bundle exec rake test
```
