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Please sign the CLA at https://github.com/NottingHack/opensource

The Contributors License Agreement

Version 1.0

Preface

This Agreement is between You, the Users, the Contributors, and Nottingham Hackspace Limited. The intent of the Agreement is to clarify your responsibilities as a Contributor.

The Agreement is meant to protect You, the Users, the Contributors, and Nottingham Hackspace Limited from the malicious misdeeds of others. The Agreement is not intended to restrict how You use Your own Contributions.

The Agreement is written in plain English to be easily understood by You and all those affected by it. The terms defined below and used throughout this document are capitalized in order to reduce ambiguity, but they should be understood to have their usual colloquial meaning and the singular shall include the plural.

Definitions

  1. "Agreement" — This document.

  2. "You" / "Your" — The individual signing this Agreement.

  3. "Nottingham Hackspace Limited" — The company which manages the Projects. The company's website is at http://www.nottinghack.org.uk/.

  4. "Project" — Open source projects being managed by Nottingham Hackspace Limited. The Projects may all be found at https://github.com/Nottinghack

  5. "Contribution" — Code, content, and ideas that are meant to be integrated into Projects. Issues (bug report) and pull requests (suggestions to integrate content) filed on a Project are implicitly Contributions, unless they clearly state up-front, "This is not a contribution." Contributions may take other forms as well, including (but not limited to) email or other more general communication intended to be received by one or more Contributors.

  6. "Contributor" — Those people and corporations that provide Contributions.

  7. "User" — Those people and companies which make use of the Projects. Making use of a Project includes (but is not limited to) compiling and/or running its content, taking some action which causes its content to be used, copying its content, distributing its content, modifying its content, and even taking its content and/or ideas for a less direct purpose.

Licensing Agreement

When You provide a Contribution to a Project:

  • You assert that the Contribution was authored by You.

  • You license that Contribution under the terms of the license of that Project. More specifically, You grant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense (if applicable), and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works. to the Users, the Contributors, and Nottingham Hackspace Limited.

  • Additionally, you grant a license to Nottingham Hackspace Limited to change the open source license governing your Contributions

  • You assert that You have the authority and are able to license Your Contribution under the license of that Project.

  • If Your employer has rights to intellectual property that You create which may include Your Contribution, then You assert that Your employer has granted You explicit permission to license the Contribution on behalf of Your employer.

Furthermore:

  • You assert that You have the authority and are able to enter into this Agreement.

  • If You become aware of a problem with any of Your Contributions or with the fact that You have signed this Agreement, then You agree to inform Nottingham Hackspace Limited about the problem, without any undue delay.