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# Backspace Contributor License Agreement
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Thank you for your interest in contributing to Backspace ("the Project"), owned
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and maintained by **Jannis Braun** ("the Maintainer", "I", "me", or "my").
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This Contributor License Agreement ("Agreement") governs the intellectual
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property rights in Contributions made by any person or entity ("You") to the
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Project. Backspace is a single-owner project: to keep the licensing of the
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codebase unified in one hand, **You keep the copyright to your Contributions and
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grant the Maintainer a broad exclusive license** to them, and in return the
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Maintainer grants You a license to keep using your own work.
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By submitting a Contribution to the Project (for example, by opening a pull
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request) and by signing this Agreement through the Project's CLA bot, You accept
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and agree to the following terms for all past and future Contributions You
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submit.
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## 1. Definitions
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**"Contribution"** means any original work of authorship, including any
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modification of or addition to an existing work, that You intentionally submit
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to the Project in any form (including source code, object code, documentation,
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configuration, designs, or assets) through any means, including pull requests,
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patches, issues with attached code, or electronic communication, but excluding
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any communication You conspicuously mark in writing as "Not a Contribution".
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**"Submit"** means any act by which a Contribution is transferred to the Project,
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including by version control systems, issue trackers, mailing lists, or
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electronic messages, but excluding communication marked "Not a Contribution".
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## 2. Grant of Exclusive License
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You retain ownership of and all copyright in your Contributions. You hereby grant
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the Maintainer a perpetual, worldwide, **exclusive**, royalty-free, irrevocable,
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fully sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, prepare
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derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, relicense
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(under any terms, including open-source and commercial licenses), sell, and
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otherwise exploit your Contributions, by all means and in all media now known or
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later developed, so that the Maintainer may offer the Project under both the
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GNU AGPL-3.0 and one or more commercial licenses.
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This grant covers all Contributions You have already submitted and all
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Contributions You submit in the future, effective at the moment each is created.
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## 3. Fallback (where an exclusive license is limited)
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To the extent that the exclusive license in Section 2 is, in any jurisdiction,
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narrower than stated or otherwise limited by law, You grant the Maintainer the
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broadest license permissible there, and, only to the extent necessary to give
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the Maintainer equivalent rights, assign such rights to the Maintainer, so that
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the Maintainer obtains, as nearly as possible, the same rights as the exclusive
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license in Section 2.
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## 4. Patent License
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You grant the Maintainer a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
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irrevocable, sublicensable patent license (under any patent claims You can
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license that are necessarily infringed by your Contribution alone or by
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combination of your Contribution with the Project) to make, have made, use,
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offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your Contributions and the
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Project.
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## 5. License Back to You
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The Maintainer grants You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
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irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute **the specific
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Contributions You authored** for any purpose, including in your own other
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projects. This license-back applies only to the material You personally created
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and does not grant You any rights in the Project as a whole or in the
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Contributions of others. It does not limit the Maintainer's rights under
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Sections 2–4.
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## 6. Moral Rights
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To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, You waive, and agree not to
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assert, any moral rights (including rights of attribution and integrity) You may
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have in your Contributions against the Maintainer or the Maintainer's licensees
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and successors. Where such rights cannot be waived, You agree not to enforce
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them in a way that interferes with the Maintainer's exercise of the rights
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assigned and granted above.
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## 7. Your Representations
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You represent that:
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1. Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation, and You have the full
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right and authority to grant the rights and licenses in this Agreement.
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2. You are legally entitled to make these grants. If Your employer has rights
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to intellectual property You create, You represent that You have received
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permission to make the Contributions on behalf of that employer, or that Your
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employer has waived such rights for Your Contributions.
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3. Each of Your Contributions does not, to the best of Your knowledge, violate
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any third party's copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual
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property rights.
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4. If any Contribution includes or depends on third-party work, You will clearly
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identify it, along with any associated license or other restriction of which
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You are personally aware, in the Contribution itself or in the accompanying
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pull request.
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## 8. No Obligation
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You acknowledge that the Maintainer is under no obligation to use, merge, or
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incorporate any Contribution. The decision to include any Contribution in the
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Project rests solely with the Maintainer.
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## 9. Disclaimer
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Except for the representations in Section 7, Your Contributions are provided "as
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is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without
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limitation any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
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title, or non-infringement.
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## 10. Entity Contributions
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If You are signing on behalf of a legal entity, You represent that You have the
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authority to bind that entity and its affiliates to this Agreement, and the
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terms "You" and "Your" refer to that entity and its affiliates.
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---
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To sign this Agreement, comment on your pull request with **exactly** the
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following sentence:
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> I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA
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Your signature is recorded against your GitHub username and applies to all of
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your current and future Contributions to the Project.
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