netdata-cla

# netdata contributors license agreement

**Thank you for contributing to netdata!**

This agreement is part of the legal framework of the open-source ecosystem
that adds some red tape, but protects both the contributor and the project.

To understand why this is needed, please read [a well-written chapter from
Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software on CLAs](http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html).

By signing this agreement, you do not change your rights to use your own
contributions for any other purpose.

## copyright license

The Contributor (*you*) grants netdata Inc. 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 his contributions and such derivative works.

## copyright transfer

The Contributor (*you*) hereby assigns netdata Inc. copyright in his
contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.

> *Note: this means we may re-license netdata (your contributions included)
> any way we see fit, without asking your permission. We intend to keep the netdata agent forever FOSS.
> But open-source licenses have significant differences and in our attempt to
> help netdata grow we may have to distribute it under a different license.
> For example, CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, requires netdata
> to be licensed under Apache-2.0 for it to be accepted as a member of the
> Foundation. We want to be free to do it.*

## original work

The Contributor (*you*) represent that each of his contributions is his
original creation and that he is legally entitled to grant the above license.

> *Note: if you are committing third party code, please make sure the third party
> license or any other restrictions are also included with your commits.
> netdata includes many third party libraries and tools and this is not a
> problem, provided that the license of the third party code is compatible with
> the one we use for netdata.*

## signature

The Contributor (*you*) signs this agreement on cla-assistant.io, which requires
to login using the same username he/she uses on github (the same username that
submitted code to the project).

By signing once, all contributions (past and future) of The Contributor (*you*),
are subject to this agreement.