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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.

It’s not a comprehensive list of all possible licenses.

If you understand the goals of this site and still want to suggest a change, please:

  • Make sure you have a GitHub account
  • 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, 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’s it!

For more advanced changes, check out the bootstrap instructions in the project's readme.

Testing

HTML::Proofer is set up to validate all links within the project. You can run this locally to ensure that your changes are valid:

./script/bootstrap
./script/cibuild