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Website Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Okay, we'll keep the legalese to a minimum. This CLA is written for people to easily understand, no complicated language, no redundancy. Just a simple agreement.

A copy of this CLA (in plain-text form) will be included in and distributed with the repository, as well as on the Website itself, beginning in December 2022.


You hereby agree to the following terms and conditions as laid out by Slade Rice Watkins for your past, present, and future Contributions to the Website.

  • Glossary (including plurals):

    • "You", "Your", "Yours", the contributor.
    • "Contributors", other contributors of code to this repository.
    • "Text", meaning your Text that could be publicly displayed on the Website.
    • "Your Contributions", the contributions You made or will make to this repository.
    • "Website", the sladewatkins.com website.
    • "Slade Rice Watkins", "Me", "Slade", the repository creator.
  • Terms and Grants:

    • You hereby grant to Slade Rice Watkins and to recipients of software distributed by Slade Rice Watkins 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.
    • You hereby grant Slade Rice Watkins and all Contributors irrevocable permission to redistribute Your code under the MIT License and your Text under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license, per the Terms of this repository laid out above.
    • You hereby grant to Slade Rice Watkins and to all Contributors permission to use Your code in patent works, per the Terms of this repository laid out above.
  • Contributions

    • By signing this CLA, You hereby affirm that all Contributors made by You are Yours.
    • You hereby affirm you will document and explain changes you make to this repository, including but not limited to: why the change is necessary, what the change does, and how that change affects the Website. You can do so in a commit message, pull request description, or comments within the code itself.
    • You hereby affirm to abide by the terms of the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), which is available in text form in the DCO file, or at developercertificate.org.
      • Due to the DCO, You also hereby acknowledge and affirm that You will add a Signed-off-by: tag to each and every commit you make to this repository, with reverts being the ONLY exception to this rule.
  • Explicit Grant of Copyright:

    • By signing this CLA, You hereby grant to Slade Rice Watkins and to recipients of software distributed by Slade Rice Watkins 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.
  • Rights Reserved by Slade Rice Watkins and Contributors:

    • Slade Rice Watkins and Contributors reserve the right to update this CLA to a newer version at any time.
    • Slade Rice Watkins and Contributors reserve the right to update this CLA with or without notice, at their discretion.
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