Do you want to contribute your work to Dandelion? Well, then first and most important: THANK YOU!
Now, in order to accept your contribution, there are some terms you must expressly agree with, so please read them carefully. They might look a bit cumbersome, but they are here just in order to protect you, your contribution, and especially the project's future.
Important: submitting any contributions to the Dandelion project implies your full acceptance of these terms, including the "Dandelion Individual Contributor License Agreement" detailed at the end.
Anyone, with the unique condition that he/she must be a private individual, acting in his/her own name, and not being endorsed in their contributed work by any company or government.
Note that this condition will not only refer to the ownership of the effort invested in contributing to the project, but also to the fact that no private or public company will be mentioned as a a part of your contribution on the project's website or code, including but not limited to web/email addresses or package names.
First of all, get in touch with the project members (an email or a topic in the forum should do) to talk about your ideas: new features, fixes, documentation... whatever you would like to contribute to the project. Let we discuss the possibilities with you so that we make sure your contribution goes in the right direction and aligns with the project's standards, intentions and roadmap.
Your contributions will have the form of GitHub pull requests.
Also, please understand that not all pull requests will be accepted and merged into the project's repositories. Talking about your planned contributions with the project members before creating pull requests will maximize the possibilities of your contributions being accepted.
Once your contribution is approved, you will be listed as a contributor at the
Dandelion Team page. You can opt-out of this if you want.
Also, you will be @author for any new Java classes that you write and also co-@author to any existing classes to
which you make significant changes. You can also opt-out of this if you want.
All Dandelion software is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause ("BSD New" or "BSD Simplified") open source license, and your contributions will be licensed in the same way.
If you work for a company which, by the way or place in which your code was written, by your contract terms or by the laws in your country, could claim any rights (including but not limited to intellectual or industrial property) over your contributed code, you will have to send the project members (either by email from your authorised superiors or by signed fax), a statement indicating that your company agrees with the terms explained in this page, and that it both authorises your contribution to Dandelion and states that will never claim any kind of rights over it.
To make the ICLA effective, please sign it using the attached form. This is a legally binding document, so please read it carefully before agreeing to it. The Agreement may cover more than one software project managed by Dandelion.