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Contributing to the MPS
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We are very happy to receive contributions to the Memory Pool System so
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that we can improve it for everyone.
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Review
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The MPS is highly engineered and rigorously controlled in order to
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prevent defects. This approach has lead to an extremely small number of
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bugs in production since its first commercial use in 1997. There are a
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fairly large number of rules, both low- and high-level that your code
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must follow in order to be accepted. These rules are the result of
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continuous process improvement to prevent defects. Unfortunately, we do
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not have many of them published at present. We apologise if you find it
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frustrating that we do not accept your changes as they are.
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The style guide in guide.impl.c.format_ contains basic rules for style.
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.. _guide.impl.c.format: design/guide.impl.c.format.txt
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Licensing
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Prior to the 2020-05 re-licensing of the MPS under the BSD 2-clause
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license, we required contributors to agree to the following
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contribution agreement, so that we could continue to commercially
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license the MPS and thereby fund future development. We have not yet
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decided what may replace this requirement.
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I grant Ravenbrook Ltd an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide,
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non-exclusive licence to do anything with [your contribution] that I
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would have the right to do. This includes (but is not limited to):
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1. reproducing it and doing any other act that is restricted by
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copyright;
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2. the right to sublicence to others the code and any derivative
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work.
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A member of Ravenbrook staff may ask you to expressly (in writing) agree.
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You just need to reply with “I agree.” We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Thank you
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Finally, thank you for making the MPS more useful to everyone.
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