Esri welcomes contributions to our open source projects on Github.
Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.
Please refer to each project's style guidelines and guidelines for submitting patches and additions. In general, we follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.
- Fork the repo on GitHub
- Commit changes to a branch in your fork
- Pull request "upstream" with your changes
- Merge changes in to "upstream" repo
NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!
Most Esri open source projects are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Esri does not require you to assign the copyright of your contributions, you retain the copyright. Esri does require that you make your contributions available under the Apache license in order to be included in the main repo.
If appropriate, include the Apache 2.0 license summary at the top of each file along with the copyright info. If you are adding a new file that you wrote, include your name in the copyright notice in the license summary at the top of the file.
You can copy and paste the Apache 2.0 license summary from below.
Copyright 2013 by Esri
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Please do not contribute code you did not write yourself, unless you are certain you have the legal ability to do so. Also ensure all code contributed can be licensed under the Apache License 2.0.