Thank you for your interest in contributing to MOLA.
In order to accept your contributions, we require you to agree to the following terms:
You hereby grant to the MOLA project maintainers a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to:
- use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions;
- relicense your contributions under different terms, including proprietary/commercial licenses.
You agree that your contributions may be distributed under:
- GNU GPL v3 (open source), and/or
- alternative commercial licenses.
You grant a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free patent license for any patents necessarily infringed by your contributions.
You represent that:
- you are the original author of the contribution, or you have the right to submit it under this agreement;
- the contribution does not, to your knowledge, infringe any third-party intellectual property rights, including but not limited to patents, copyrights, trademarks, or trade secrets; and
- you are not aware of any pending or threatened claims, litigation, or other proceedings with respect to the contribution that would affect the rights granted herein.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you waive and agree not to assert any moral rights or equivalent rights you may have in your contributions against the MOLA project maintainers or any downstream recipients. Where such rights cannot be waived by law, you agree not to exercise them in a manner that would restrict the exercise of the rights granted under this agreement.
If your contribution is made in the course of employment, you confirm that your employer has authorized this contribution and waived any rights they may have in the contribution in favor of the MOLA project maintainers.
This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Italy, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising under this agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Italy.
The MOLA project maintainers reserve the right to update or amend this CLA at any time. Contributions submitted after the date of any such amendment will be governed by the updated terms. Contributions already submitted under a prior version of this CLA remain governed by the terms in effect at the time of submission, unless the contributor explicitly agrees to the updated terms.
By submitting a contribution to the MOLA project, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to this CLA. For contributions submitted via GitHub pull request, acceptance is additionally confirmed by posting a comment on the pull request stating: I have read and agree to the MOLA Contributor License Agreement. The project may use an automated CLA assistant bot to facilitate and record this acceptance.
This CLA is based on commonly accepted open source contribution practices. Contributors are encouraged to seek independent legal advice if they have questions about its terms.