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# How to Contribute
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We love Pull Requests! Your contributions help make ChooseALicense.com great.
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## Getting Started
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So you want to contribute to ChooseALicense. Great! We welcome any help we can
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get. But first, please make sure you understand what
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[this site is all about](http://choosealicense.com/about). It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.
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## Adding new licenses
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Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present all of them. As such, there are several requirements for a license to be listed on the site:
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1. The license must have [an SPDX identifier](https://spdx.org/licenses/). If your license isn't registered with SPDX, please [request that it be added](https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license-or-exception).
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2. The license must be listed on one of the following approved lists of licenses:
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* [List of OSI approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical)
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* [GNU's list of free licenses](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html) (*note: the license must be listed in one of thre three "free" categories*)
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* [Open Definition's list of conformant licenses](http://opendefinition.org/licenses/) (non-code)
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3. A [GitHub code search](https://github.com/search?q=MIT+filename%3ALICENSE&type=Code) must reveal at least *1,000* public repositories using the license
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If your proposed license meets the above criteria, please follow [these instructions for adding a new license](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com#adding-a-license). Almost without exception, new licenses should be added as hidden (`hidden: true` in the YAML front matter), such that they are directly linkable and detectable, but not otherwise listed.
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## Making Changes
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The easiest way to make a change is to simply edit a file from your browser.
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When you click the edit button, it will fork the repository under your account.
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Note what issue/issues your patch fixes in the commit message.
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For example, to [change this file](/CONTRIBUTING.md),
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find it in the GitHub repository. Then click the `Edit` button. Make your
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changes, type in a commit message, and click the `Propose File Change` button.
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That’s it!
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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](/README.md).
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## Testing
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[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:
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```shell
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./script/bootstrap
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./script/cibuild
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```
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