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Signed contributor license agreements are maintained in a private repository by the osgeo secretary, for more information see licenses. Software grant and corporate contributor license agreement. Licensing faq the free and open productivity suite. A contribution agreement defines the license rights and obligations that the contributor i. Foundation must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has. We require our external contributors to sign a contributor license agreement cla in order to ensure that our projects remain licensed under free and open source licenses such as mpl2 while allowing hashicorp to build a sustainable business. Kde uses free software foundation europes fiduciary licence agreement of which fla1. Most of us that have been employed as software engineers by corporations are already intimately familiar with clas although in the corporate world they are generally called aintellectual property assignment agreement. There are two main elements to the gpl, designed to prevent open source software being exploited by their inclusion within nonfree, closed sourced software products. If somebody is unable to sign the document, their contribution. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the alliance must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been signed by. Influxdata individual contributor license agreement. The group open source initiative osi defines and maintains a list of approved opensource licenses. Google software grant and corporate contributor license agreement.
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Front page free software foundation working together. Contributor license agreement corporate libra association. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the foundation must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been signed by each contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms. With the creation of the django software foundation dsf, everybody who contributes or has contributed code to django is going to be asked to sign a contributor license agreement cla. License agreement this license agreement is entered into as of the day of, by licensor, in favor of the apache software foundation, a delaware nonstock membership corporation the foundation. Software grant and corporate contributor license agreement agreement thank you for your interest in opensource software. The apereo foundation requires that all project contributors complete a contributor license agreement cla. News free software foundation targets microsofts smart assistant in new campaign apr 01, 2020 lets encrypt, jim meyering, and clarissa lima borges receive fsfs 2019 free software awards mar 14, 2020 young hackers to deliver opening keynote. That way we can be sure that all the code in fsf projects is free code, whose freedom we. Individual contributor license agreement apache software. This license is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the foundation and its users. By contrast, most software carries fine print that denies users these basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the whims of its owners and vulnerable to surveillance. Previous versions of the sgi free software license b were not free software licenses, despite their name.
For a concrete example of this contributor process, see how the unlicensed rdf. Thank you for your interest in the apache software foundation the. Contributor license agreements may be submitted to the apereo foundation by. It is essentially identical to the x11 license, with an optional alternative way of providing license notices. We are incredibly thankful for the thousands of contributions we receive from the community. The foundation hereby grants me a royaltyfree nonexclusive license to use or sublicense the work assigned hereunder i. Under the eclipse public license epl, each contributor grants rights to create derivative works and for worldwide, royaltyfree software redistribution in accordance with the epl terms, including a royaltyfree license to use contributors patents as embodied in its contributions. Geoserver project requires individual contributors to use this license. About the django contributor license agreement django. The purpose of this contributor agreement agreement is to clarify and document the rights granted by contributors to us. It considers free software permissive license group to be a reference implementation of a free software license. The cla clearly defines the terms under which intellectual property is being contributed, and affords the foundation greater latitude to provide comprehensive governance over the project. The free software foundation fsf also provides an example of a simple disclaimer to be signed by an employer. Net foundation open source project on github with a new pull request, a bot.
By contrast, most software carries fine print that denies users these basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the alliance must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been. The openfoam foundation contributor agreement transfers ownership of openfoam code or grants sufficient rights to the foundation to allow it to be able to take legal action against those who infringe the openfoam licence thereby protecting the interests of all who have contributed to it. What you should know about contributor license agreements in. Contributor license agreement public knowledge project. Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you hereby grant to the foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the foundation a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, nocharge, royaltyfree, irrevocable except as stated in this section patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise. Please choose if you would like to create a fiduciary license agreement fla with provisions recommended by the free software foundation europe fsfe or build your own custom contributor license agreement by choosing your own options. For projects that have been contributed directly to the foundation this individual contribution license is available. If you contribute or offer to contribute any materials to volatility foundation for the software, such as by submitting a pull request to the repository for the software or related content run by volatility foundation, you agree to contribute them under the under the bsd 2clause plus patent license in the case of software or the creative. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the managing organization must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been signed by each contributor. By signing a contributor license agreement, we ensure that the community is free to use your contributions. Every contributor of nontrivial amounts of code more than just a line or two to django should sign such a document.
Asf contributor agreements the apache software foundation. We require our external contributors to sign a contributor license agreement cla. Various licenses and comments about them gnu project. A contributor licence agreement cla is strongly recommended when accepting third party contributions to an open development project, such as an open source software project. Either way, some information about you and your project is needed in both cases. Free software licence openfoam is distributed by the openfoam foundation and is freely available and open source, licensed under the gnu general public licence. We just published an article about contribution agreements for free software projects from our president richard stallman. The cla clearly defines the terms under which intellectual property is being contributed, and affords apereo greater latitude to provide comprehensive governance over the project. Except for the license granted herein to influxdata and recipients of software distributed by influxdata, you reserve all right, title, and interest in and to your. Corporate contributor license agreement the asf desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to any apache projects complete, sign, and submit via email an individual contributor license agreement icla. Django software foundation individual contributor license. Public knowledge project contributor license agreement.
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