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Author: Alexey Veretennikov <alexey.veretenni...@afconsult.com>
Commit: Alexey Veretennikov <alexey.veretenni...@afconsult.com>
Updated readme: added information about contributing
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Follow the installation instructions for the GNU ELPA above.
+## Contributions
+You can contribute to **ztree** in one of the following ways.
+- Submit a bug report
+- Submit a feature request
+- Submit a simple pull request (with changes < 15 lines)
+
+### Copyright issues
+Since **ztree** is a part of [GNU ELPA](https://elpa.gnu.org/), it is
copyrighted by the [Free Software Foundation, Inc.](http://www.fsf.org/).
Therefore in order to submit nontrivial changes (with total amount of lines >
15), one needs to to grant the right to include your works in GNU Emacs to the
FSF.
+
+For this you need to complete
[this](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fourier/ztree/contributions/request-assign.txt)
form, and send it to [ass...@gnu.org](mailto:ass...@gnu.org). The FSF will
send you the assignment contract that both you and the FSF will sign.
+
+For more information one can read [here](www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html)
to understand why it is needed.
+
+As soon as the paperwork is done one can contribute to **ztree** with bigger
pull requests.
+Note what pull requests without paperwork done will not be accepted, so please
notify the maintainer ([Alexey
Veretennikov](mailto:alexey.veretenni...@gmail.com)) if everything is in place.
+
### Manual
Add the following to your .emacs file:
