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# Contributing to Project Open Data
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*By contributing to this project, you dedicate your work to the public domain and relinquish any copyright claims under the terms of the [CC0 Public Domain Dedication](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). See the [license file](LICENSE) for additional information.*
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## How to Contribute
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This project constitutes a collaborative work ("open source"). Federal employees and members of the public are encouraged to improve the project by contributing. For more information, please see [the FAQ](/faq/)
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*Note:* You'll need [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/) and the [Bundler package manager](http://gembundler.com/).
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## Licensing
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By contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users under [the same terms under which the project is licensed](README.md#licensing).
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## Where You Come In
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Help the United States Government make its Open Data policy better by collaborating. Please suggest enhancements by editing the content here.
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The project [as originally published](#) constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC § 105. Subsequent contributions by members of the public, however, retain their original copyright.
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In order to better facilitate collaboration, the content of this project is licensed under the [Creative Commons 3.0 license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US), and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
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