# Contributor License Agreement Read this before sending code. Most people should not need to: if you have found a bug, a clear bug report is more useful to us than a patch, and it saves you the paperwork below. See the contributing section of the README. This agreement is version 1.0.0. You agree to the version in effect on the day you send us code. A later revision does not change what you already agreed to. ## Make Creative Contributor License Agreement, version 1.0.0 This agreement is between Make Creative, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company ("Make Creative", "we", "us"), and you, the person or entity submitting a Contribution ("you"). ### 1. Definitions **Project** means any software project owned by Make Creative that distributes this agreement in its source repository. **Contribution** means any work of authorship you submit to a Project, in any form and through any channel: a patch sent by email, a diff attached to an issue, a pull or merge request on any repository or mirror, a commit pushed to a branch we grant you access to, or code pasted into a message. It covers source code, documentation, configuration, test data, and build files. It does not cover a bug report, a feature request, or a description of a problem that contains no code we could copy. **Submit** means to deliver a Contribution to us or to a Project by any of the means above. ### 2. Assignment You assign to Make Creative all right, title, and interest in and to your Contribution worldwide, including all copyrights and all rights to sue for past, present, and future infringement. The assignment is effective the moment you Submit, is irrevocable, and requires no further action by either of us. You will, at our request and our expense, sign any document reasonably needed to record or perfect the assignment. ### 3. Fallback license To the extent any part of the assignment in section 2 is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, or is later found ineffective, you instead grant Make Creative a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and otherwise exploit your Contribution, by any means and in any medium now known or later devised, for any purpose, commercial or noncommercial. To the extent permitted by law, you waive, and agree not to assert against Make Creative or anyone receiving the Contribution from us, any moral rights or rights of attribution or integrity in your Contribution. Where such a waiver is not permitted, you agree not to enforce those rights in a way that would interfere with our exercise of the rights granted here. ### 4. Patent license You grant Make Creative a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your Contribution and any Project incorporating it. The license covers only those patent claims you can license that are necessarily infringed by your Contribution alone or by its combination with the Project it was Submitted to. If you initiate patent litigation alleging that a Project or a Contribution infringes a patent, every license you have received from us under section 5 terminates on the day the action is filed. ### 5. License back to you We grant you a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute your own Contribution, and derivative works of it, for any purpose, including commercially. This license covers your Contribution as you Submitted it. It does not extend to the rest of the Project, which remains available to you only under the Project's public license. ### 6. What you promise You represent that: 1. Each Contribution is your original work, or you have the right to Submit it and to grant the rights in this agreement. 2. If your employer has rights in work you produce, you have your employer's permission to Submit, or your employer has waived its rights in the Contribution. 3. Your Contribution does not contain, and is not derived from, code licensed under the GPL, LGPL, AGPL, or any other license that would impose conditions on how Make Creative may license the Project. If any part of your Contribution came from somewhere else, you identified the source and its license when you Submitted it. 4. If you used an automated tool to produce any part of your Contribution, you still hold or can grant the rights this agreement requires. 5. Your Contribution is not subject to any third-party agreement, license, or claim that conflicts with this agreement. If you learn that any of these is untrue, tell us at info@makenot.work promptly. ### 7. No warranty Except for section 6, you provide your Contribution as is, without warranty of any kind. You owe us no support, maintenance, or updates. ### 8. No obligation and no compensation We are not required to use, merge, distribute, or keep any Contribution. We may modify, relicense, or remove it. Submitting a Contribution creates no employment, partnership, agency, or joint venture between us. You are not entitled to compensation for a Contribution. If we agree to pay for one, that agreement will be separate and in writing, and it does not change the rights assigned here. ### 9. How you accept You accept this agreement when you Submit a Contribution. We also ask you to record that acceptance in each commit message: ``` Make-Creative-CLA: 1.0.0 Signed-off-by: Your Name ``` Leaving the line out does not undo your acceptance. It only means the record of it lives outside the repository. If you are Submitting on behalf of an entity, the person who Submits represents that they are authorized to bind that entity, and "you" means the entity. ### 10. Terms This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, USA, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Colorado, and you consent to their jurisdiction. This is the entire agreement between us about Contributions, and it replaces any earlier understanding on the subject. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. We may publish a revised version of this agreement. A revision applies only to Contributions Submitted on or after its publication date. Your earlier Contributions stay governed by the version in effect when you Submitted them.