Signed contributor license agreements are maintained in a private repository by the osgeo secretary, for more information see licenses. To apply a source license, you must fill out and sign a oracle contributor agreement oca. Thank you for your interest in the apache software foundation the. Geotools project requires individual contributors to use this license. Influxdata individual contributor license agreement. Osi agrees with fsf on all widely used freesoftware licenses, but differ from fsfs list, as it approves against the open source definition rather than the free software definition. Software grant and corporate contributor license agreement. If somebody is unable to sign the document, their contribution. The asf desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to any apache projects complete, sign, and submit via email an individual contributor license agreement icla. What you should know about contributor license agreements in.
Free software developers guarantee everyone equal rights to their programs. A contributor license agreement cla defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to a companyproject, typically software under an open source license. Contributor license agreement corporate libra association. Please choose if you would like to create a fiduciary license agreement fla with provisions recommended by the free software foundation europe fsfe or build your own custom contributor license agreement by choosing your own options. Pkp is a multiuniversity initiative developing free open source software and conducting research to.
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Individual contributor license agreement agreement v2. If you wish for your work to be used outside of any product say, as website faq, then you may use the pdl. The apereo foundation requires that all project contributors complete a contributor license agreement cla. Except for the license granted herein to influxdata and recipients of software distributed by influxdata, you reserve all right, title, and interest in and to your. A contribution agreement defines the license rights and obligations that the contributor i. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the foundation must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has. Kde uses free software foundation europes fiduciary licence agreement of which fla1. Licensing faq the free and open productivity suite. Hashicorp is committed to having a true free and open source software. A contributor licence agreement cla is strongly recommended when accepting third party contributions to an open development project, such as an open source software project. With the creation of the django software foundation dsf, everybody who contributes or has contributed code to django is going to be asked to sign a contributor license agreement cla.
Front page free software foundation working together. This license is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the foundation and its users. All software produced by the apache software foundation or any of its projects or subjects is licensed according to the terms of the documents listed below. First, apereo strongly support the use of mainstream software licenses that have been approved by both the free software foundation and the open source initiative. By contrast, most software carries fine print that denies users these basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the whims of its owners and vulnerable to surveillance. In order to redistribute contributions, it is necessary to ensure that the project has the necessary rights to do so. Under the eclipse public license epl, each contributor grants rights to create derivative works and for worldwide, royaltyfree software redistribution in accordance with the epl terms, including a royaltyfree license to use contributors patents as embodied in its contributions. To enter the agreement, please fill out your name, address and initial license academic free license v. For a concrete example of this contributor process, see how the unlicensed rdf. Whereas, licensor owns or has sufficient rights to contribute the software source code and other related intellectual property as. The cla clearly defines the terms under which intellectual property is being contributed, and affords the foundation greater latitude to provide comprehensive governance over the project.
Alliance for open media individual contributor license agreement agreement v2. It considers free software permissive license group to be a reference implementation of a free software license. By submitting the individual contributor license agreement form below, you hereby agree to the following terms for your present and future contributions submitted to influxdata. First of all, what exactly is a contributor license agreement hereafter referred to as cla. Geoserver project requires individual contributors to use this license. Foundation must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has.
By contrast, most software carries fine print that denies users these basic rights, leaving them susceptible to the. Inbound licensing contributor license agreements apereo requires that all project contributors complete a contributor license agreement cla. Eclipse foundation legal frequently asked questions faq. There are two main elements to the gpl, designed to prevent open source software being exploited by their inclusion within nonfree, closed sourced software products. Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the open source definition in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. Volatility software license license volatilityfoundation. Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you hereby grant to the foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the foundation a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, nocharge, royaltyfree, irrevocable except as stated in this section patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise. Contributor license agreements may be submitted to the apereo foundation by. Asf contributor agreements the apache software foundation. Opc foundation contributor agreement thank you for your interest in contributing to the opc foundation we or us. For projects that have been contributed directly to the foundation this individual contribution license is available. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the managing organization must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been signed by each contributor. Contributor license agreements may be submitted to the apereo foundation by emailing scanned signed copies, by fax, or by postal mail. Fsfe shall only exercise the granted rights and licences in accordance with the principles of free software as defined by the free software foundations.
Previous versions of the sgi free software license b were not free software licenses, despite their name. By signing a contributor license agreement, we ensure that the community is free to use your contributions. Thank you for your interest in the django software foundation the foundation. Google software grant and corporate contributor license agreement. The django software foundation is asking all past and future contributors to sign a contributor license agreement. License agreement this license agreement is entered into as of the day of, by licensor, in favor of the apache software foundation, a delaware nonstock membership corporation the foundation. 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 mpl2 while allowing hashicorp to build a sustainable business. The openfoam foundation contributor agreement transfers ownership of openfoam code or grants sufficient rights to the foundation to allow it to be able to take legal action against those who infringe the openfoam licence thereby protecting the interests of all who have contributed to it. The free software foundation fsf also provides an example of a simple disclaimer to be signed by an employer.
We just published an article about contribution agreements for free software projects from our president richard stallman. Individual contributor license agreement apache software. Software grant and corporate contributor license agreement agreement thank you for your interest in opensource software. About the django contributor license agreement django. It is essentially identical to the x11 license, with an optional alternative way of providing license notices. This contributor agreement is between python software foundation psf and the individual or other entity identified below the contributor. That way we can be sure that all the code in fsf projects is free code, whose freedom we. Various licenses and comments about them gnu project. Djangos cla is a copy of the one used by the apache software foundation for all contributions to their projects. We are incredibly thankful for the thousands of contributions we receive from the community. Every contributor of nontrivial amounts of code more than just a line or two to django should sign such a document. Individual contributor license agreement alliance for. The purpose of this contributor agreement agreement is to clarify and document the rights granted by contributors to us. We, the free software foundation, use the gnu general public license for most of our software.
The group open source initiative osi defines and maintains a list of approved opensource licenses. This license is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the. If you have not already done so, please complete and send an original signed agreement to the apache software foundation, 1901 munsey drive, forest. Most of us that have been employed as software engineers by corporations are already intimately familiar with clas although in the corporate world they are generally called aintellectual property assignment agreement. The cla clearly defines the terms under which intellectual property is being contributed, and affords apereo greater latitude to provide comprehensive governance over the project. Contributor license agreement public knowledge project. The foundation hereby grants me a royaltyfree nonexclusive license to use or sublicense the work assigned hereunder i. License proliferation is a problem and that all free open source software. We require our external contributors to sign a contributor license agreement cla. The django software foundation is asking all past and future contributors to sign a. Public knowledge project contributor license agreement. Django software foundation corporate contributor license. In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the foundation must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been signed by each contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms.
In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, the alliance must have a contributor license agreement cla on file that has been. Django software foundation individual contributor license. Free software licence openfoam is distributed by the openfoam foundation and is freely available and open source, licensed under the gnu general public licence. The free software foundation, for example, uses this approach for some of its gnu projects, allowing a single maintainer to own and enforce the. The usage of the source license differs from that of the pdl.
If you contribute or offer to contribute any materials to volatility foundation for the software, such as by submitting a pull request to the repository for the software or related content run by volatility foundation, you agree to contribute them under the under the bsd 2clause plus patent license in the case of software or the creative. Corporate contributor license agreement the asf desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to any apache projects complete, sign, and submit via email an individual contributor license agreement icla. News free software foundation targets microsofts smart assistant in new campaign apr 01, 2020 lets encrypt, jim meyering, and clarissa lima borges receive fsfs 2019 free software awards mar 14, 2020 young hackers to deliver opening keynote. By contrast, the gnu general public license is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a programto make sure it remains free software for all its users. The fsf and project harmony free software foundation. The apache software foundation software grant and corporate contributor license agreement agreement. Alliance for open media software grant and corporate contributor license agreement agreement thank you for your interest in the alliance for open media the alliance. Individual contributor license agreement template cla. Net foundation open source project on github with a new pull request, a bot.