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