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This the development repository for Simple Machines Forum. The software is licensed under BSD 3-clause license.

Contributions to documentation are licensed under CC-by-SA 3. Third party libraries or sets of images are under their own licenses.

Notes:

Feel free to fork this repository and make your desired changes.

Please see the Developer's Certificate of Origin in the repository: by signing off your contributions, you acknowledge that you can and do license your submissions under the license of the project.

Branches organization:

release-3.0 - is the branch where updates for version 3.0 are applied
release-2.1 - is the branch where updates for version 2.1 are applied

How to contribute:

fork the repository. If you are not used to Github, please check out fork a repository.
branch your repository, to commit the desired changes.
sign-off your commits, to acknowledge your submission under the license of the project.
- It is enough to include in your commit comment "Signed-off by: " followed by your name and email address (for example: Signed-off-by: Your Name <youremail@example.com>)
- an easy way to do so is to define an alias for the git commit command, which includes -s switch (reference: How to create Git aliases)
send a pull request to us.
SMF uses third party libraries via composer, if you want to run a local version, please install composer first and run composer install

How to submit a pull request:

If you want to send a bug fix for version 3.0, send it to the branch release-3.0

Security matters:

Lastly, if you have a security issue you would like to notify us about regarding SMF for any version - please file a security report on our website: https://www.simplemachines.org/about/smf/security.php

For further information regarding our security policy, see SECURITY.md

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