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# Contributor License Agreement

We are incredibly thankful for contributions we receive from the
community. We require our external contributors to sign a Contributor
License Agreement ("CLA") in order to ensure that our projects remain
licensed under Free and Open Source licenses such as AGPLv3 or Apache
2 allowing Velocidex Innovations to build a sustainable business.

Velocidex Innovations is committed to having a true Free and Open
Source Software ("FOSS") license for our non-commercial software. A
CLA enables Velocidex Innovations to safely commercialize our products
while keeping a standard FOSS license with all the rights that license
grants to users: the ability to use the project in their own projects
or businesses, to republish modified source, or to completely fork the
project.

This page gives a human-friendly summary of our CLA, details on why we
require a CLA, how contributors can sign our CLA, and more. You may
view the full legal CLA document here.

## Human-Friendly Summary

This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the
full agreement below. This highlights only some of key terms of the
CLA. It has no legal value and you should carefully review all the
terms of the actual CLA before agreeing (Legal Terms and Agreement
below).

* Grant of copyright license. You give Velocidex Innovations
permission to use your copyrighted work in commercial products.

* Grant of patent license. If your contributed work uses a patent, you
give Velocidex Innovations a license to use that patent including
within commercial products. You also agree that you have permission
to grant this license.

* No Warranty or Support Obligations. By making a contribution, you
are not obligating yourself to provide support for the contribution,
and you are not taking on any warranty obligations or providing any
assurances about how it will perform.

The CLA does not change the terms of the standard open source license
used by our software such as AGPLv3 or Apache2. You are still free to
use our projects within your own projects or businesses, republish
modified source, and more. Please reference the appropriate license
for the project you're contributing to to learn more.

## Why Require a CLA?

Agreeing to a CLA explicitly states that you are entitled to provide a
contribution, that you cannot withdraw permission to use your
contribution at a later date, and that Velocidex Innovations has
permission to use your contribution in our commercial products.

This removes any ambiguities or uncertainties caused by not having a
CLA and allows users and customers to confidently adopt our
projects. At the same time, the CLA ensures that all contributions to
our open source projects are licensed under the project's respective
open source license, such as AGPLv3.

Requiring a CLA is a common and well-accepted practice in open
source. Major open source projects require CLAs such as Apache
Software Foundation projects, Facebook projects (such as React),
Google projects (including Go), Python, Django, and more. Each of
these projects remains licensed under permissive OSS licenses such as
MIT, Apache, BSD, and more.

# Signing the CLA

Open a pull request ("PR") to any of our open source projects to sign
the CLA. A bot will comment on the PR asking you to sign the CLA if
you haven't already.

Follow the steps given by the bot to sign the CLA. This will require
you to log in with GitHub (we only request public information from
your account) and to fill in a few additional details such as your
name and email address. We will only use this information for CLA
tracking; none of your submitted information will be used for
marketing purposes.

You only have to sign the CLA once. Once you've signed the CLA, future
contributions to any Velocidex Innovations project will not require
you to sign again.

# Legal Terms and Agreement

In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with
Contributions from any person or entity, Velocidex Innovations
("Velocidex") 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 does not change your rights to
use your own Contributions for any other purpose.

You accept and agree to the following terms and conditions for Your
present and future Contributions submitted to Velocidex. Except for
the license granted herein to Velocidex and recipients of software
distributed by Velocidex, You reserve all right, title, and interest
in and to Your Contributions.

1. Definitions. "You" (or "Your") shall mean the copyright owner or
legal entity authorized by the copyright owner that is making this
Agreement with Velocidex. 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.

"Contribution" shall mean any original work of authorship,
including any modifications or additions to an existing work, that
is or previously has been intentionally submitted by You to
Velocidex for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the
products owned or managed by Velocidex (the "Work"). For the
purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of
electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to Velocidex or
its representatives, 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, Velocidex
for the purpose of discussing and improving the Work, but excluding
communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated
in writing by You as "Not a Contribution."

2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, You hereby grant to Velocidex and to recipients of
software distributed by Velocidex a perpetual, worldwide,
non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright
license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly
display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your
Contributions and such derivative works.

3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, You hereby grant to Velocidex and to recipients of
software distributed by Velocidex a perpetual, worldwide,
non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as
stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use,
offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where
such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You
that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution(s) alone or by
combination of Your Contribution(s) with the Work to which such
Contribution(s) was submitted. If any entity institutes patent
litigation against You or any other entity (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, then any patent licenses granted
to that entity under this Agreement for that Contribution or Work
shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

4. You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above
license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property
that you create that includes your Contributions, you represent
that you have received permission to make Contributions on behalf
of that employer, that you will have received permission from your
current and future employers for all future Contributions, that
your applicable employer has waived such rights for all of your
current and future Contributions to Velocidex, or that your
employer has executed a separate Corporate CLA with Velocidex.

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 submissions 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
Contributions.

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. Unless required by
applicable law or agreed to in writing, You provide Your
Contributions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS
OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without
limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, 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 Velocidex 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 Velocidex of any facts or circumstances of
which you become aware that would make these representations
inaccurate in any respect.
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