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Corporate Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
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Thank you for your interest in The Fedora Project (the "Project"). In
order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with
Contributions from any person or entity, the Project must have a
Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file that has been signed by
each Contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms
below. This license is for your protection as a Contributor as well as
the protection of the Project and its users; it does not change your
rights to use your own Contributions for any other purpose.
This version of the CLA allows an entity (the "Corporation") to
authorize Contributions from its designated employees that may have
previously assigned rights to such Contributions to the Corporation,
usually as part of their employment agreements.
If you have not already done so, please complete an original signed
Agreement. Use black ink, and hand-print or type the items other than
the signature. Send the completed Agreement to
Fedora Project, c/o Red Hat, Inc.
Attn: Legal Affairs
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606
U.S.A
If necessary, you may send it by facsimile to the Project at
+1-919-754-3704 or e-mail a signed pdf copy of the document to
fedora-legal@redhat.com. Please read this document carefully before
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Corporation name: ________________________________________________
Corporation address: ________________________________________________
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Point of Contact: ________________________________________________
E-Mail: ________________________________________________
Telephone: _____________________ Fax: _____________________
The Project and you (the Corporation) hereby accept and agree to the following terms and conditions:
1. Contributors and Contributions.
A. The Project and any individual or legal entity that
voluntarily submits to the Project a Contribution are
collectively addressed herein as "Contributors". For legal
entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other
entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common
control with that entity are considered to be a single
Contributor. For the purposes of this definition, "control"
means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the direction
or management of such entity, whether by contract or otherwise,
or (ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the
outstanding shares, or (iii) beneficial ownership of such
entity.
B. A "Contribution" is any original work, including any
modification or addition to an existing work, that has been
submitted for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the
products owned or managed by the Project, where such work
originates from that particular Contributor or from some entity
acting on behalf of that Contributor.
C. A Contribution is "submitted" when any form of electronic,
verbal, or written communication is 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, or on behalf of, the Project for the
purpose of discussing or improving software or documentation of
the Project, but excluding communication that is conspicuously
marked or otherwise designated in writing by you as "Not a
Contribution."
D. Any Contribution submitted by you to the Project shall be
under the terms and conditions of this License, without any
additional terms or conditions, unless you explicitly state
otherwise in the submission.
2. Contributor Grant of License. You hereby grant to Red Hat, Inc.,
on behalf of the Project, and to recipients of software distributed
by the Project:
(a) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up,
royalty free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce,
prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly
perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such
derivative works; and,
(b) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up,
royalty free, irrevocable (subject to Section 3) patent license
to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and
otherwise transfer your Contribution and derivative works
thereof, where such license applies only to those patent claims
licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your
Contribution alone or by combination of your Contribution with
the work to which you submitted the Contribution. Except for
the license granted in this section, you reserve all right,
title and interest in and to your Contributions.
3. Reciprocity. As of the date any such litigation is filed, your
patent grant shall immediately terminate with respect to any party
that institutes patent litigation against you (including a
cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that your
Contribution, or the work to which you have contributed, constitutes
direct or contributory patent infringement.
4. You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above
license. You represent further that each employee of the Corporation
designated in writing by you (or in Schedule A below) is authorized
to submit Contributions to the Project on behalf of the Corporation
under the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
5. You represent that each of your Contributions is your original
creation (see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others). You
represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete
details of any third-party license or other restriction (including,
but not limited to, related patents and trademarks) of which you are
personally aware and which are associated with any part of your
Contribution.
6. You are not expected to provide support for your Contributions,
except to the extent you desire to provide support. You may provide
support for free, for a fee, or not at all. Your Contributions are
provided on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF
ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation,
any warranties or conditions of NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY,
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
7. Should you wish to submit work that is not your original
creation, you may submit it to the Project separately from any
Contribution, identifying the complete details of its source and of
any license or other restriction (including, but not limited to,
related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you
are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the work as
"Submitted on behalf of a third-party: [named here]".
8. You agree to notify the Project of any facts or circumstances of
which you become aware that would make these representations
inaccurate in any respect. It is your responsibility to notify the
Project when any change is required to the list of designated
employees authorized to submit Contributions on behalf of the
Corporation, or to the Corporation's Point of Contact with the
Project, whether or not the Project may be aware of a change of
employment or other circumstance that might imply such a change.
9. The Project is under no obligation to accept and include every
contribution to the Project.
Please sign: __________________________________ Date: _______________
Title: __________________________________
Corporation: __________________________________
Schedule A: Initial List of Designated Employees
