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| 1 | +# DING Individual Contributor License Agreement |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +Thank you for your interest in contributing to DING (the "Project"), maintained |
| 4 | +by DING Contributors and the `ding-labs` organization (collectively, "We" or |
| 5 | +"Us"). To clarify the intellectual property license granted with Contributions |
| 6 | +from any person or entity, We must have a Contributor License Agreement |
| 7 | +("Agreement" or "CLA") on file that has been signed by each Contributor, |
| 8 | +indicating agreement to the license terms below. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +This Agreement is for your protection as a Contributor as well as the |
| 11 | +protection of Us and Project users; it does not change your rights to use your |
| 12 | +own Contributions for any other purpose. By signing this CLA (which happens |
| 13 | +automatically the first time you open a pull request, by commenting on the PR |
| 14 | +with the sentence the CLA bot prompts you with), you accept and agree to the |
| 15 | +following terms and conditions for your present and future Contributions |
| 16 | +submitted to the Project. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +If you are signing on behalf of your employer or another legal entity, you |
| 19 | +represent that you are authorized to bind that entity to the terms of this |
| 20 | +Agreement. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +## 1. Definitions |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +**"You"** (or **"Your"**) means the copyright owner or legal entity authorized |
| 25 | +by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement with Us. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +**"Contribution"** means any original work of authorship, including any |
| 28 | +modifications or additions to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted |
| 29 | +by You to the Project for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the |
| 30 | +products owned or managed by Us. For the purposes of this definition, |
| 31 | +"submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent |
| 32 | +to Us or our representatives, including but not limited to communication on |
| 33 | +electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking |
| 34 | +systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, Us for the purpose of discussing |
| 35 | +and improving the Project, but excluding communication that is conspicuously |
| 36 | +marked or otherwise designated in writing by You as "Not a Contribution." |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +## 2. Grant of Copyright License |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Us |
| 41 | +and to recipients of software distributed by Us a perpetual, worldwide, |
| 42 | +non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to |
| 43 | +reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, |
| 44 | +**sublicense**, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +The right to sublicense includes the right for Us to license Your Contributions |
| 47 | +under licenses other than the license under which the Project is currently |
| 48 | +distributed, including for the avoidance of doubt under proprietary or |
| 49 | +commercial licenses. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +## 3. Grant of Patent License |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Us |
| 54 | +and to recipients of software distributed by Us a perpetual, worldwide, |
| 55 | +non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this |
| 56 | +section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, |
| 57 | +and otherwise transfer the Project, where such license applies only to those |
| 58 | +patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your |
| 59 | +Contribution(s) alone or by combination of Your Contribution(s) with the |
| 60 | +Project to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +If any entity institutes patent litigation against You or any other entity |
| 63 | +(including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that Your |
| 64 | +Contribution, or the Project to which You have contributed, constitutes direct |
| 65 | +or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that |
| 66 | +entity under this Agreement for that Contribution or Project shall terminate as |
| 67 | +of the date such litigation is filed. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## 4. Representations |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +You represent that: |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +(a) You are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s) |
| 74 | +has rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your |
| 75 | +Contributions, you represent that you have received permission to make |
| 76 | +Contributions on behalf of that employer, that your employer has waived such |
| 77 | +rights for your Contributions to Us, or that your employer has executed a |
| 78 | +separate Corporate CLA with Us. |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +(b) Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation (see section 7 for |
| 81 | +submissions on behalf of others). |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +(c) Your Contribution submissions include complete details of any third-party |
| 84 | +license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents |
| 85 | +and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and which are associated with |
| 86 | +any part of Your Contributions. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +## 5. Disclaimer |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to the |
| 91 | +extent You desire to provide support. You may provide support for free, for a |
| 92 | +fee, or not at all. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, |
| 93 | +You provide Your Contributions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR |
| 94 | +CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without |
| 95 | +limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, |
| 96 | +MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +## 6. Notification |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | +You agree to notify Us of any facts or circumstances of which you become aware |
| 101 | +that would make these representations inaccurate in any respect. |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +## 7. Submissions on Behalf of Others |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You may |
| 106 | +submit it to Us separately from any Contribution, identifying the complete |
| 107 | +details of its source and of any license or other restriction (including, but |
| 108 | +not limited to, related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which |
| 109 | +You are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the work as "Submitted on |
| 110 | +behalf of a third-party: [named here]". |
| 111 | + |
| 112 | +--- |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +This Agreement is adapted from the |
| 115 | +[Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement v2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf) |
| 116 | +and is offered under the |
| 117 | +[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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