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+# Contributing to Mbed OS
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+Mbed OS is an open-source, device software platform for the Internet of Things. Contributions are an important part of the platform, and our goal is to make it as simple as possible to become a contributor.
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+To encourage productive collaboration, as well as robust, consistent and maintainable code, we have a set of guidelines for [contributing to Mbed OS](https://os.mbed.com/docs/mbed-os/latest/contributing/index.html).
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 For more information, please follow this [blog post](https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/Reducing-memory-usage-by-tuning-RTOS-con/).
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+### License and contributions
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+The software is provided under Apache-2.0 license. Contributions to this project are accepted under the same license. Please see [contributing.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more info.
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+This project contains code from other projects. The original license text is included in those source files. They must comply with our license guide.
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