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<p>Adding a dependency is non-trivial and will require fairly convincing arguments.</p><p>Further, <b>ALL</b> dependencies for ethers, <b>must</b> be MIT licensed or public domain (CC0).</p><p>All contributions to ethers are then included under the MIT license.</p>
<p>All source and documentation files should ONLY use the printable ASCII set.</p><p>This is for several reasons, bu...</p><ul><li>Transmission over certain HTTP servers and proxies can mangle UTF-8 data</li><li>Certain editors on some platforms, or in certain terminals cannot handle UTF-8 characters elegantly</li><li>The ability to enter non-ASCII characters on some platforms require special keyboards, input devices or input methods to be installed, which either not be supported, or may require administrative priviledges.</li></ul>
<p>A common argument to Pull Requests is that they are simple, backwards compatible and</p><p>It is important to remember that a small change is something that we are required to support in perpetuity.</p><p>For example, adding support for an obscure platform, such as adding a dot-file to the root of the package, now carries the implication that we will continue keeping that dot-file up-to-date as new versions of that platform are released.</p><divclass="footer"><divclass="nav next"><ahref="/getting-started/">Getting Started<spanclass="arrow">→</span></a></div></div><divclass="copyright">The content of this site is licensed under the <ahref="https://choosealicense.com/licenses/cc-by-4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</div></div><scriptsrc="/script.js"type="text/javascript"></script></body></html><!-- ContentHash:2d878369503ff00b8bf2df3c438f0166077d4b62ae8547dc535bb364295611e3 -->
