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layout: page
title: "Contributing & License"
category: extra
date: 2018-12-20 19:28:45
order: 3
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Everyone is welcome to contribute with suggestions or pull requests, as the library is under active development,
although it has reached a high level of stability.

We are grateful to anyone who has contributed with fixes, features or feature requests.

## Bug reports

Please make sure to fill the bug report issue template on GitHub.
We highly recommend to try to reproduce the bug in the demo app, as this helps a lot in debugging
and excludes programming errors from your side.

Make sure to include:

- A clear and concise description of what the bug is
- CameraView version, device type, Android API level
- Exact steps to reproduce the issue
- Description of the expected behavior

Recommended extras:

- Screenshots
- LogCat logs (use `CameraLogger.setLogLevel(LEVEL_VERBOSE)` to print all)
- Link to a GitHub repo where the bug is reproducible

## Pull Requests

Please open an issue first.

Unless your PR is a simple fix (typos, documentation, bugs with obvious solution), opening an issue
will let us discuss the problem, take design decisions and have a reference to the issue description.

Please write tests.

Unless the code was already not covered by tests, updated tests are required for merging. The lib
has a few unit tests and more robust tests in the `androidTest` folder, which can be run by Android Studio.

## License

CameraView was formally born as a fork of [CameraKit-Android](https://github.com/wonderkiln/CameraKit-Android) 
and [Google's CameraView](https://github.com/google/cameraview), but has been completely rewritten since.

CameraKit's source code is licensed under the [MIT](https://github.com/wonderkiln/CameraKit-Android/blob/master/LICENSE) license.

CameraView is licensed under the [MIT](https://github.com/natario1/CameraView/blob/master/LICENSE) license as well.