We welcome any contribution to improve Lynis. Contributions to the Lynis project can be submitted as a pull request. The upstream project can be found in our GitHub repository.
By submitting a Pull Request to this repository, you agree that you:
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Own the contribution that you are providing or have obtained permission from the contribution owner
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Allow your contribution to be licensed under the license of the target project (GPLv3)
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Allow your contribution to be freely distributed to the Lynis community
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Allow the project the Unlimited Rights to your contribution
If you have questions regarding development, send us an e-mail at lynis-dev
Our project is licensed under GPLv3. By providing a contribution to the project, it will be used for the purpose of the project. Unlimited rights includes the rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose computer software or computer software documentation in whole or in part, in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever, and to have or authorize others to do so.
If you want to be named in as a contributor in the CONTRIBUTOR file, then include this notition in your pull request. Preferred format: Full Name, with optional the company name and/or your e-mail address).
To ensure all pull requests can be easily checked and merged, here are some tips:
- Your code should work on other platforms running the bourne shell (/bin/sh), not just BASH.
- Properly document your code where needed. Besides the 'what', focus on explaining the 'why'.
- Check the log information (lynis.log) of your new test or changed code, so that it provides helpful details for others.
Identation should be 4 spaces (no tab character).
Comments: use # sign followed by a space. When needed, create a comment block. Blank lines: allowed, one line maximum
All functions use CamelCase to clearly show a difference between shell built-in commands, or external commands.
Variables should be capitalized, with underscore as word separator (e.g. PROCESS_EXISTS=1)