# Contributing to Feign

If you would like to contribute code you can do so through GitHub by forking the repository and sending a pull request (on a branch other than `master` or `gh-pages`).

When submitting code, please ensure you follow the [Google Style Guide](http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javaguide.html). For example, you can format code with Intellij using [this file](https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/intellij-java-google-style.xml).

## License

By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the terms of the APLv2: https://github.com/Netflix/Feign/blob/master/LICENSE

All files are released with the Apache 2.0 license.

If you are adding a new file it should have a header like this:

```
/**
 * Copyright 2013 Netflix, Inc.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
 ```