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How to Contribute to MINIX
This page describes how you can contribute to MINIX.
Finding a Project
See the Wishlist for areas where we could use help.
Contributing Patches
Patches are pieces of code that solve an existing issue. In fact, patches describe the changes between a before and after state. Patches will need to be created against the latest development version of MINIX3 from Git and can be mailed to the MINIX 3 Google Group.
Also see DevelopersGuide/TrackingCurrent and Distributed Git - Contributing to a Project: Public Project over E-Mail
Contributing Packages
Send your pkgsrc patch to the MINIX 3 Google Group. Before generating it, make sure you have updated your pkgsrc git repository.
If you modified the program's source code, please send your MINIX-specific patch to the original authors of the program.
Also see PortingGuide.
Minix License
MINIX 3 is licensed under the BSD license, so we strongly prefer BSD-licensed contributions to our base system, drivers, and the like. If you are porting code to MINIX from another OS, please port BSD-licensed code. For instance, if you are porting a driver to MINIX, you might start with a FreeBSD or NetBSD driver.
The Minix 3 ports use the BSD license for port metadata (build scripts, etc.), but modifications to the original program should use the license of the ported program.
