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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") clarifies the intellectual
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property rights granted with Contributions from any person or entity ("You")
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to the Maintainer. It protects You, the Maintainer, and the Project's users; it
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does **not** change Your right to use Your own Contributions for any other
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purpose.
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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. Copyright License and Right to Relicense
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You retain all right, title, and interest in and to Your Contributions. You do
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**not** assign Your copyright to the Maintainer.
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Instead, You grant to the Maintainer, and to recipients of software distributed
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by the Maintainer, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
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irrevocable license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display,
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publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such
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derivative works.
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You further grant the Maintainer the right to **license and relicense Your
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Contributions, and the Project as a whole, under any license terms the
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Maintainer chooses** — including the Elastic License 2.0, other open-source or
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source-available licenses, and proprietary or commercial licenses — now and in
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the future, without further notice to or consent from You. This right exists so
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the Maintainer can sustain, evolve, and commercially license the Project while
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keeping it source-available to the community.
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## 3. Patent License
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You grant to the Maintainer and to recipients of software distributed by the
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Maintainer a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable
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(except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer
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to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer Your Contributions, where such
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license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that are
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necessarily infringed by Your Contribution alone or by combination of Your
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Contribution with the Project to which it was Submitted.
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If any entity institutes patent litigation against You or any other entity
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(including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that Your
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Contribution, or the Project to which You contributed, constitutes direct or
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contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that
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entity under this Agreement for that Contribution or Project terminate as of the
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date such litigation is filed.
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## 4. Your Representations
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You represent that:
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1. Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation, or You have sufficient
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rights to grant the licenses described in this Agreement.
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2. You are legally entitled to grant the above licenses. If Your employer has
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rights to intellectual property You create, You represent that You have
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received permission to make the Contributions on behalf of that employer, or
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that Your 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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## 5. 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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## 6. Disclaimer
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Except for the representations in Section 4, 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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## 7. 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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