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Any third-party libraries (e.g. JARs) required to compile or run DSpace must be included. The license of any required jar MUST be compatible with BSD; it must not prevent any commercial use of DSpace, nor have any impact on the rest of the code by its inclusion. It is not acceptible to require additional downloads of JARs to make DSpace compile or function.

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• They must correspond to the database version and not the DSpace version.
• They are not required for DSpace to compile and run; a variety of databases, including open source databases, may be used.

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Database schema changes

Database schema changes will be done only on major revisions to the source; this is when the version number takes the form x.y (e.g. 1.3). When making patches which cause schema changes it is necessary to update all of the relevant SQL files with your sequences, tables, views etc. (in /dspace/etc):

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Documentation Contributions

All new features require documentation before they will be accepted. You may send us code before documentation is completed, but we will be unable to accept that code into DSpace until it is properly documented.

Follow exactly the same procedure as above; the documentation resides in the {dspace/docs/docbook} directory.

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