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+# Contributing to the OpenCL ICD Loader project.
+
+Contributions to the OpenCL ICD Loader are welcomed and encouraged.
+Please follow the instructions below for submitting your patches.
+
+## Preparing and submitting changes
+
+Please propose changes to the ICD loader using GitHub pull requests. 
+You will be prompted with a one-time "click-through" CLA dialog as part of submitting your pull request or other contribution to GitHub.
+
+## Windows DLL versioning
+
+The ICD Loader version is maintained in `loader/windows/OpenCL.rc` in the form `x.y.z.0` in three fields:
+FILEVERSION, PRODUCTVERSION and FileVersion.
+
+The `z` component of the version must be incremented by one for each pull request that modifies anything in the `loader` directory.
+The fields must match each other after the increment.
+
+## Linux shared library versioning
+
+The ICD loader library version on Linux is 1.2 with SONAME set to libOpenCL.so.1 using the SOVERSION property in CMakeLists.txt.
+MAJOR version does not change when new API functions are added to the ICD loader because the loader maintains backwards compatibility.
+MINOR version remains 2.
+Note that the version number is independent of the OpenCL specification revision number.
+ICD loader library version should take the form MAJOR.MINOR.RELEASE instead of currently used MAJOR.MINOR format (e.g. current version 1.2 should become 1.2.0).
+RELEASE field should be incremented by one for each pull request that modifies anything in the loader directory.
+