Contributor License Agreement

Thank you for your interest in contributing to open source projects maintained by Mataki Labs LLC, doing business as Fairlead (“Fairlead”). This Contributor License Agreement (“CLA”) defines the terms under which contributions are made to Fairlead’s open source projects, including the Fairlead SDKs, client libraries, and related tooling.

By submitting a contribution to any Fairlead open source repository hosted under github.com/fairlead-dev, you accept and agree to the following terms.

1. Definitions

“Contribution” means any original work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to existing work, that you intentionally submit to a Fairlead project for inclusion in the project. “Submit” means any form of electronic communication sent to Fairlead, including pull requests, issues with attached code, patches, and commits pushed to Fairlead-hosted repositories.

“You” (or “Your”) means the individual or legal entity making the Contribution. If the Contribution is made on behalf of a company or other legal entity, “You” includes that entity.

2. Grant of Copyright License

You hereby grant to Fairlead and to recipients of software distributed by Fairlead 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

You hereby grant to Fairlead and to recipients of software distributed by Fairlead a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer Your Contributions, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution alone or by combination of Your Contribution with the project to which it was submitted.

4. Representations

You represent that:

(a) You are legally entitled to grant the above licenses. If your employer has rights to intellectual property that you create, you represent that you have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that employer, or that your employer has waived such rights for your Contributions.

(b) Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation. If any part of Your Contribution includes materials from a third party, you represent that you have disclosed this and that the third-party materials are available under a compatible open source license.

(c) Your Contribution does not violate any law or infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights.

5. No Obligation

You understand that the decision to include Your Contribution in any project is entirely at Fairlead’s discretion. Fairlead is under no obligation to use or include Your Contribution.

6. Support

You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to the extent you desire to do so. Support, if provided, is on a voluntary basis and without warranty.

7. Notification

You agree to notify Fairlead if you become aware of any facts or circumstances that would make your representations in this CLA inaccurate.

8. Dual Licensing

You understand and agree that Fairlead may distribute its projects under multiple licenses, including proprietary licenses, and that Your Contributions may be included in versions of the project distributed under any such license. Fairlead open source components are currently distributed under the MIT License, but this CLA permits Fairlead to offer these projects under additional licenses in the future. This is a standard practice for “open core” projects and is the reason a CLA (rather than a DCO) is required.

How to Sign

Automated CLA Signing

All Fairlead open source repositories use CLA Assistant to manage CLA signatures. When you open your first pull request to a Fairlead repository:

CLA Assistant will automatically check if you have signed the CLA
If you haven’t signed, it will comment on your PR with a link
Click the link and sign by commenting “I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA” on the PR
Your signature is recorded and all future PRs are automatically approved

Corporate Contributors

If you are making Contributions on behalf of your employer, an authorized representative of your company should sign the CLA via the same mechanism. If your company requires a separate corporate CLA, contact legal@fairlead.dev.

Questions

Contact legal@fairlead.dev or open an issue in the relevant repository at github.com/fairlead-dev.