Introducing the LangBot Contributor License Agreement (CLA) / LangBot 引入贡献者许可协议

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Starting today (June 10, 2026), contributors to LangBot repositories are asked to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before their pull requests can be merged.

Why

As the LangBot community has grown past 100 contributors, we need a clear legal record to protect both the project and its contributors — confirming that every contributor has the right to submit their code, and granting the project a license to distribute those contributions. This is standard practice in major open source projects such as the Apache Software Foundation, Google, Grafana, and PingCAP.

What this means for you

• You keep full copyright of your code. The CLA is a license, not a copyright transfer/assignment.
• Signing takes about 10 seconds: when you open a PR, a bot will prompt you; reply with a single designated comment and you are done. One signature covers all repositories in the langbot-app organization, permanently.
• Past merged contributions are not affected — no retroactive signing is required.
• LangBot's open source license (Apache-2.0) is unchanged, and we commit that the main repository will continue to make an open source version publicly available (see Section 10 of the CLA).

For pull requests that are currently open: the CLA check will run the next time you push to the PR (or when someone comments recheck). You will need to sign before the PR can be merged.

Full agreement text: https://github.com/langbot-app/LangBot/blob/master/CLA.md (English authoritative text with Chinese reference translation)
Signature records: https://github.com/langbot-app/cla

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从今天（2026 年 6 月 10 日）起，向 LangBot 各仓库提交的 PR 需要签署贡献者许可协议（CLA）后才能合并。

为什么

随着 LangBot 社区贡献者超过 100 人，我们需要一份清晰的法律记录来保护项目和贡献者——确认每位贡献者有权提交其代码，并授予项目分发这些贡献的许可。这是 Apache 基金会、Google、Grafana、PingCAP 等主流开源项目的标准做法。

对你的影响

• 你保留自己代码的全部版权。CLA 是"许可"，不是"版权转让"。
• 签署约需 10 秒：提交 PR 时机器人会自动提示，回复一句指定内容即完成。一次签署对 langbot-app 组织全部仓库永久有效。
• 已合并的历史贡献不受任何影响，无需补签。
• LangBot 的开源许可证（Apache-2.0）不变，且我们在 CLA 第 10 条中承诺：主仓库将持续公开提供开源版本。

对于当前已开放的 PR：下次向该 PR 推送代码（或有人评论 recheck）时，CLA 检查会运行，签署后方可合并。

协议全文：https://github.com/langbot-app/LangBot/blob/master/CLA.md （英文为正本，附中文参考译文）
签署记录：https://github.com/langbot-app/cla

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