.. _contribution_guidelines:

Contribution Guidelines
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As an open-source project, we welcome and encourage the community to
submit patches directly to |SPN|.  

Licensing
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|SPN| project uses a BSD plus patents license, as found in the
`LICENSE <https://github.com/slimbootloader/slimbootloader/blob/master/LICENSE>`__
in the project's GitHub repo.

It is important that the contributor fully understands the licensing terms and conditions 
and agrees to them. 

Coding Style
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|SPN| project follows the `EDKII coding guidelines <https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Code-Style-C>`__
 

.. _Contribution workflow:

Contribution Workflow
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|SPN| uses the `GitHub fork-clone-branch-change-pull workflow <https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/>`__

More information is available at `<https://guides.github.com/introduction/git-handbook/>`__
