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| 1 | +# Contributor License Agreement |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +The following terms are used throughout this agreement: |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +- **You** - the person or legal entity including its affiliates asked to accept this agreement. An affiliate is any entity |
| 6 | +that controls or is controlled by the legal entity, or is under common control with it. |
| 7 | +- **Project** - is an umbrella term that refers to any and all DACHCOM.DIGITAL AG open source projects. |
| 8 | +- **Contribution** - any type of work that is submitted to a Project, including any modifications or additions to existing |
| 9 | +work. |
| 10 | +- **Submitted** - conveyed to a Project via a pull request, commit, issue, or any form of electronic, written, or verbal |
| 11 | +communication with DACHCOM.DIGITAL AG, contributors or maintainers. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## 1. Grant of Copyright License. |
| 14 | +Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors, users and |
| 15 | +to DACHCOM.DIGITAL AG a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, |
| 16 | +prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your contributions and such |
| 17 | +derivative works. Except for this license, You reserve all rights, title, and interest in your contributions. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +## 2. Grant of Patent License. |
| 20 | +Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors, users and |
| 21 | +to DACHCOM.DIGITAL AG a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this |
| 22 | +section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your contributions, |
| 23 | +where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your |
| 24 | +contribution or by combination of your contribution with the project to which this contribution was submitted. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +If any entity institutes patent litigation - including cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit - against You alleging |
| 27 | +that your contribution or any project it was submitted to constitutes or is responsible for direct or contributory |
| 28 | +patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this agreement shall terminate as of the date |
| 29 | +such litigation is filed. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +## 3. Source of Contribution. |
| 32 | +Your contribution is either your original creation, based upon previous work that, to the best of your knowledge, is |
| 33 | +covered under an appropriate open source license, and you have the right under that license to submit that work with |
| 34 | +modifications, whether created in whole or in part by you, or you have clearly identified the source of the contribution |
| 35 | +and any license or other restriction (like related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you are |
| 36 | +personally aware. |
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