How to contribute
Government employees, public and members of the private sector are encouraged to contribute to the repository by forking and submitting a pull request.
(If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a basic tutorial and check out a more detailed guide to pull requests.)
Pull requests will be evaluated by the repository guardians on a schedule and if deemed beneficial will be committed to the master.
All contributors retain the original copyright to their stuff, but by contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users under the terms of the license under which this project is distributed.
To track copyright, please use the following:
New code file: At the top of the file, please ensure copyright and year is attributed to collaborator and assign the full Apache 2.0 license
Major addition to code file: ‘Copyright 2015-2023 Province of British Columbia’ and full Apache 2.0 remains as a header and either the second collaborator is added if there are changes throughout the code or copyright is added for specific function(s). So it could read:
# Copyright 2015-2023 Province of British Columbia
# Copyright 2024 Collaborator
#
# 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
#
# https://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.or
# Copyright 2024 Collaborator
# Apache 2.0 License
new_function <- function() {
# code
} Minor changes: If there are small changes to the code throughout the file then it may be easiest to leave the copyright declaration unaltered. However, the contribution will be tracked through GitHub.