Submitting Code

The JEDI VCL is built upon donations made by the community. If you have components that you would like to submit to JVCL then we would love to receive them.

The rules

• All code that is submitted will be released under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. By submitting code to Project JEDI you explicitly agree to it. For more information about MPL licensing please read our Licensing page including some FAQ. You can also read the official MPL FAQ from Mozilla. We suggest that you at least glance through these documents before submitting your code. If you still have questions you can always contact us.
• Submissions must be your own. If code is not your own, you are responsible for making sure that the code is not subject to any copyright or license that would prevent the JVCL team to modify the code and release the resulting code under the terms of the MPL license.
• Code must be packaged in a standard zip compatible file. You should use the highest compression available. Inside the package you must include an ASCII text-only Readme.txt file which clearly states your name, your e-mail address, optionally your homepage address and whether you want to remain anonymous or not.
• After submission, the code may be modified. As a rule, you will not be contacted for permission to carry out modifications, if you are not involved in the maintenance of the code. No matter how much your code is modified, at all times the documentation will reflect you as being the original author of the code. You will remain the copyright holder of your code.
• Submitted code is subject to being reformatted to match the style conventions used throughout the JVCL and JVCL Guidelines. Contributors will not be forced to convert the components to JVCL standard at the time of submission, but might be requested to do so after the code has been accepted? (i.e: "Your donation has been accepted and will be included in JVCL when you have converted it to JVCL standards). 
• Donation should include a demo program that creates the component(s) dynamically (no need to install in Delphi) and shows off the major properties, methods and events.
• After submission, you should hear from us within two weeks about the status of your donation.
• The JVCL is a Visual Component Library. To avoid confusion, a class is considered a component when it derives from TComponent and it's usage requires it to be installed in the IDE and be 'dropped on a form'. These kind of a classes will be included in the JVCL. If you have a classes that are NOT components that you like to share with the world through Project JEDI then please go to Project JEDI Code Library (JCL) to contribute it there. A class that does not need to be installed in the IDE, even though it may exhibit some kind of visual interface at runtime, is not considered a component and is perfectly acceptable for the JCL.

After your contribution has been accepted, your name should appear on our Contributors page. If your name does not appear there something may have gone wrong and you should contact us.