| Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end). | |
| ### Before you contribute | |
| **Before we can use your code, you must sign the | |
| [Google Individual Contributor License Agreement](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual?csw=1) | |
| (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 | |
| 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. Use the issue tracker to explain your idea so we can help and | |
| possibly guide you. | |
| ### Code reviews and other contributions. | |
| **All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review.** | |
| Please follow the instructions in [the contributors documentation](http://bazel.io/contributing.html). | |
| ### 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://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-corporate). |