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Kaitai Struct: format library

Contributing

If you've developed a format specification using Kaitai Struct and would like to make the world a little better by sharing your knowledge, so other fellow developers don't have to redo the same parsing task again and again from scratch — that's great, your contribution would be most welcome!

Please follow these steps:

  • Choose open source license for your .ksy
    • We recommend either CC0-1.0 if it's a trivial transcription of some specification into formal .ksy, or MIT license if your .ksy is non-trivial and creative approach to a format, but you can choose any OSI-approved open source license that you want.
  • Ensure that your .ksy file passes basic checklist:
    • It MUST compile without errors with ksc
    • It MUST have licensing information (meta/license tag with valid SPDX open source license expression is mandatory, licensing comment is optional)
    • It SHOULD have some general information about the format and some documentation (meta/title, meta/file-extension, meta/application, doc, doc-ref tags).
    • It SHOULD match the style guide.
  • Fork this repository
  • Choose a relevant folder and add your .ksy spec into it
  • Create a "pull request" at GitHub to pull your specs into this repo
    • Please add some general information about the formats and some instructions on how could we test it (i.e. where can we find sample files in that format, etc)