# Contributing to Our Projects, Version 1.2

Thanks for thinking about using or contributing to this software and its documentation ("coderoad-vscode")!

## 1. Introduction

The project maintainer for this Project will only accept contributions using the Developer’s Certificate of Origin 1.1 located at https://developercertificate.org (“DCO”). The DCO is a legally binding statement asserting that you are the creator of your contribution, or that you otherwise have the authority to distribute the contribution, and that you are intentionally making the contribution available under the license associated with the Project ("License").

## 2. Developer Certificate of Origin Process

You can agree to the DCO in your contribution by using a “Signed-off-by” line at the end of your commit message. You should only submit a contribution if you are willing to agree to the DCO terms. If you are willing, just add a line to the end of every git commit message:

`Signed-off-by: Jane Smith <jane.smith@email.com>`

You may type this line on your own when writing your commit messages. However, Git makes it easy to add this line to your commit messages. If you set your `user.name` and `user.email` as part of your git configuration, you can sign your commit automatically with `git commit -s`.

## 3. Important Points

Pseudonymous or anonymous contributions are permissible, but you must be reachable at the email provided in the Signed-off-by line.

We encourage contributors to modify `CONTRIBUTORS.md` to add your name and copyright date to the list of people who have contributed to the Project. If your contribution is significant, you are also welcome to add your name and copyright date to the source file header.

U.S. Federal law prevents the government from accepting gratuitous services unless certain conditions are met. By sumbitting a pull request, you acknowledge that your services are offered without expectation of payment and that you expressly waive any future pay claims against the U.S. Federal government related to your contribution.

If you are a U.S. Federal government employee and use a _.mil or _.gov email address, we interpret your Signed-off-by to mean that the contribution was created in whole or in part by you and that your contribution is not subject to copyright protections.

## 4. DCO Text

The text of the DCO is (from https://developercertificate.org):

```
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
```
