1.2 Contributing

Ns-3 is a research and educational simulator, by and for the research community. It will rely on the ongoing contributions of the community to develop new models, debug or maintain existing ones, and share results. There are a few policies that we hope will encourage people to contribute to ns-3 like they have for ns-2:

• Open source licensing based on GNU GPLv2 compatibility;
• wiki;
• Contributed Code page, similar to ns-2’s popular Contributed Code page;
• src/contrib directory (we will host your contributed code);
• Open bug tracker;
• Ns-3 developers will gladly help potential contributors to get started with the simulator (please contact one of us).

We realize that if you are reading this document, contributing back to the project is probably not your foremost concern at this point, but we want you to be aware that contributing is in the spirit of the project and that even the act of dropping us a note about your early experience with ns-3 (e.g. "this tutorial section was not clear..."), reports of stale documentation, etc. are much appreciated.

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