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Loggen Contribution Agreement

The purpose of this document is to clarify the intellectual property license granted with Contribution from any person or entity.

By adding your name in below section List of Contributors, you accept and agree to the following terms and conditions for you (further named Contributor) present and future Contributions Submitted.

The below stated terms have been last updated on January 12th, 2018.

Definitions

Contributor
Shall mean the copyright owner or legal entity authorized by the copyright owner that is making the Agreement.
Contribution
Shall mean the code, documentation or other original works of authorship that is intentionally Submitted by Contributor for inclusion into the project.
Submit
Shall mean any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the project including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems and issue tracking systems that are managed by the project members.

Terms of agreement

The Submitter agrees by adding his or her name within the section below named Contributors and Submitting the resulting modified document to the canonical shared repository location for this software project, he or she is signing a contract electronically. The Submitter becomes a Contributor after:

  1. he or she signs this document by adding their name beneath the Contributors section below;
  2. the resulting document is accepted into the canonical version control repository.

Licensing and copyright holding

The loggen project is released under the licensing terms of the MIT License stated in the LICENSE.rst file.

Contributor formally license any Contribution Submitted to the project under the same licensing terms. At the same time, Contributor shall also sign the file AUTHORS.rst, remains copyright holder of the Contributions and is not asked to transfer the copyright to any person or entity.

Representations, Warranty and Indemnification

Contributor represents and warrants that Submitted code does not violate the rights of any person or entity, and that Contributor has legal authority to enter into this Agreement and legal authority over Contributed code.

Contributor will not allow anyone other than the Contributor to use his or her username or source repository login to Submit code to Submit to the project.

The "Obvious fix" rule

Very small Contributions such as fixing spelling errors, where the content is small enough to not be intellectual property, can be Submitted by Contributor without signing this agreement.

For this rule to apply, Contributor should implicitly state the terms obvious fix in the Submission.

Any other work will require the Contribution Agreement to be signed.

What qualifies as an Obvious fix?

An Obvious fix is a Submission that does not contain creative work. This terms may be subjective however, as a rule of thumb changes are obvious fixes if they do not introduce any new functionality or creative thinking. This may include be not only the following:

  • spelling and grammar fixes;
  • changes to white space or formatting;
  • moving files from one directory to another with no changes in the source code.

Submission

To improve tracking of Contributions, Contributor is asked to sign-off any Submission made.

The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the Submission, which certifies that Contributor has legal authority over the Submission or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source project.

By making a Contribution to this project, Contributor certifies that:

  1. Contribution was created in whole or in part by Contributor and Contributor has the right to Submit it under the open source license indicated in the LICENSE.rst file; or
  2. Contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of Contributor's knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and Contributor has the right under that license to Submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by Contributor, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to Submit under a different license), as indicated in the file LICENSE.rst; or
  3. Contribution was provided directly to Contributor by some other person who certified one of the above points and Contributor has not modified it.
  4. Contributor understands and agrees that this project and the Contribution are public and that a record of the Contribution (including all personal information Submitted with it) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved.

If above points can be certified, Contributor can add the following line within the Submission:

Signed-off-by: Full Name <email address>

Licensing exceptions

This project can include files from third party projects which license allows to included within the loggen project but does not fall under the terms stated above.

Such files are explicitly enclosing the licensing terms they fall under and are listed in the bellow section for clarity.

List of licensing exceptions

  • None.

List of Contributors

The below-signed are contributors to the project named Loggen. Each below-signed contributor has read, understand and agrees to the terms above in the section within this document entitled as of the date beside his or her full name in the form:

- Full Name <email address>, YYYY/MM/DD

Where YYYY is the year of signature on 4 digits (i.e. 2015), MM the month of signature on 2 digits (i.e 01 for January until 12 for December) and DD the day of signature on 2 digits (i.e. 15 for the 15th day of the month).

Contributors