Contributor License Agreement
Rated's open source projects Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
Human-Friendly Summary
This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the full agreement. It highlights some key terms of the Contributor License Agreement (CLA). It has no legal value, and you should carefully review all the terms of the actual CLA before agreeing.
Grant of Copyright License: You give Rated Labs permission to use your copyrighted work in commercial products.
Grant of Patent License: If your contributed work uses a patent, you grant Rated Labs a license to use that patent, including within commercial products. You also confirm that you have the permission to grant this license.
No Warranty or Support Obligations: By making a contribution, you are not obligated to provide support for it, nor are you providing any warranties or assurances about its performance.
The CLA does not change the terms of the underlying license used by our software. You are still free to use our projects within your own projects or businesses, republish modified source code, and more, subject to the terms of the project's license. Please refer to the appropriate license for the project you're contributing to for more information.
Why Require a CLA?
Agreeing to a CLA explicitly states that you are entitled to provide a contribution, that you cannot withdraw permission to use your contribution at a later date, and that Rated Labs has permission to use your contribution in our commercial products.
This removes any ambiguities or uncertainties caused by not having a CLA and allows users and customers to confidently adopt our projects. At the same time, the CLA ensures that all contributions to our open-source projects are licensed under the project's respective open-source license.
Requiring a CLA is a common and well-accepted practice in open source. Major open-source projects require CLAs, such as Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects, React (Facebook), Go (Google) , Python, Django, and more. Each of these projects remains licensed under permissive open-source licenses such as MIT, Apache, BSD, and others.
Signing the CLA
By opening a pull request (PR) to any of our open-source projects, you declare that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms of our Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Submitting a PR signifies your acceptance of the CLA without the need for a separate signature.
You only need to agree to the CLA once. Future contributions to any of our projects will not require you to agree again.
Legal Terms and Agreement
To clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity, Rated Labs ("Rated") must have a Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") on file that has been agreed to by each contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms below. This license does not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose.
You accept and agree to the following terms and conditions for your present and future contributions submitted to Rated. Except for the license granted herein to Rated and recipients of software distributed by Rated, you reserve all rights, title, and interest in and to your contributions.
1. Definitions
"You" or "Your" refers to the copyright owner or legal entity authorized by the copyright owner entering into this agreement with Rated. For legal entities, the entity making a contribution and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity are considered a single contributor. For this definition, "control" means:
the direct or indirect power to direct or manage such entity, whether by contract or otherwise;
ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding shares; or
beneficial ownership of such entity.
"Contribution" means any original work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to an existing work, that is or has been intentionally submitted by you to Rated for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the products owned or managed by Rated (the "Work"). For this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to Rated or its representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems managed by, or on behalf of, Rated for discussing and improving the Work, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by you as "Not a Contribution."
2. Grant of Copyright License
Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you hereby grant to Rated and to recipients of software distributed by Rated 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
Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, you hereby grant to Rated and to recipients of software distributed by Rated a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work. This license applies only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your contribution(s) alone or by combination of your contribution(s) with the Work to which such contribution(s) was submitted. If any entity institutes patent litigation against you or any other entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that your contribution or the Work to which you have contributed constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this agreement for that contribution or Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
4. Representations
You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that you create, including your contributions, you represent that:
you have received permission to make contributions on behalf of that employer;
your employer has waived such rights for all your contributions to Rated; or
your employer has executed a separate Corporate CLA with Rated.
5. Original Creation
You represent that each of your contributions is your original creation. You also represent that your contribution submissions include complete details of any third-party license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and that are associated with any part of your contributions.
6. No Support or Warranties
You are not expected to provide support for your contributions, except as you desire. You may provide support for free, for a fee, or not at all. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, you provide your contributions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
7. Third-Party Works
Should you wish to submit work that is not your original creation, you may submit it to Rated separately from any contribution. Identify the complete details of its source and any license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you are personally aware, and conspicuously mark the work as "Submitted on behalf of a third-party: [named here]."
8. Notification of Changes
You agree to notify Rated of any facts or circumstances of which you become aware that would make these representations inaccurate in any respect.
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